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Bernie Sanders Proves He's the BEST 2020 Candidate on Medicare For All
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Bernie Sanders because hindsight is 2020
That has to be the best campaign motto I’ve ever seen.
I love how he rolled over for the DNC like a dog, and sold his revolution to the highest bidder..
Your hindsight seems to forget that..
The question itself was a loaded question. It implied that people care about their health insurance plans, but in reality people don’t care about their plans. They care about their doctors.
+CellGames2006 I see what you’re saying.
+kickenerbutt Yes, but even if your current plan is cheap, that doesn’t mean it’s effective. It may still leave you in a position with high medical debt. Med4All prevents situations like that from happening.
+The Progressivist Yeah I definitely am a huge advocate. Just saying that I’m more concerned about my friends getting proper healthcare than getting a “good deal” for myself.
+Xyz Same Aye… Healthcare in the US is insane. @.@;
Bernie is the best candidate, period.
Tulsis is also Great but you are correct Bernie already has the foundation , record and groundwork that will make the Trump establishment buckle under his competition
Bernie Tulsi 2020
bernie is a Fake lifer politician.
+C Gall nothing about Bernie is fake.
Lol maybe for you. I want to make real money. I bet you’re some sort of laborer
Bernie MAULS Fox News Town Hall
He should give an example. You’re making $100k/yr… Instead of paying $11k/yr for private, you’ll be paying less than $1k/yr more in taxes. Is that tough on people who currently don’t pay for any Healthcare? Sure… That’s why wages need to rise as well… It’s not one problem that needs fixing. But that’s less of a problem, than not being able to get healthcare so they just die.
Bernie has given examples. Not every time but a lot of times.
You understand how it works, there’s not just 1 problem but many that go hand in hand and need to be fixed together
Bernie should really keep hammering that stability point. That one is really strong. Employees are always at the mercy of their employers when it comes to this. They are always changing up their employees insurance plans without telling them. This is really common for all working people.
Mia Lovely – You are correct, however, you should also know that Health Insurance is a benefit employers offer employees. It is not mandatory that they offer Insurance if they don’t have at least 50 employees.
Besides being fine as hell Mia, your right on, stability sounded strong….
And also keep showing the M4A card you can get any doctor with. That blows the GOP rhetoric about you losing your plan out of the water.
Hello from NZ. I don’t have any insurance. No need. I have no real understanding of all the crap you have to deal with.
You are all getting ripped off.
Australia have a better system than New Zealand though.
+Barry Nichols But you have a public non-profit “insurance” agency do you ? (Like the NHS in the U.K. and Australis has a public service as well). Else you would need to pay out of pocket, and that can get insanely expensive if you are unlucky.
In a non-profit system it is still a good thing to have one entitiy doing the price negotiations for the care while other units provide it – like pharmacies, doctors and hosptials (it is not the “free market” that controls cost and quality, healthcare is a terrible fit for “free market” so there must be other mechanisms).
The agencies collect the money, get subsidies on top, pay the bills and organize preventive care – they set up a framework for those who do the acutal work.
This is why I’ll be voting for Bernie Sanders again in 2020 like I did in 2016. He’s the rightful one who should be our next President, and Commander in Chief!
Even Tulsi, Yang etc voters need to back Bernie. Bernie opens the door FOR ALL PROGRESSIVES! He’ll need good people to fill his cabinet.
+Cornelius Agrippa
Exactly. Even if you don’t wholeheartedly agree agree with Sanders, his election to president will open the door for others such as Gabbard and Yang.
Please send a buck (or a few) to Gabbard and also MIKE GRAVEL (he is 88 years old he only wants to make it at the stage, and for that he needs 65,000 donations – time for a a few verbal punches, and he does not have to be polite or think of later political cooperations. Even Gabbard, Yank or Sanders have to be “polite”
oh, and check out his announcement video Rock 2.0
Bernie always was the best candidate, not just the best on medicare for all.
I tried to explain this to my Republican mom in 2016. Her response was typical, “I don’t want to pay more taxes!”. SMH! These people have thick skulls!
+Harry Mann Jr Penny wise, but Pound foolish.
+Harry Mann Jr – I don’t think you understand what the meaning of “net savings” is. And not only is Medicare lower in its OVERALL cost, you get more bang for your buck. You’re getting better quality healthcare service, more options, more stability, AND mobility. There are so many workers who stay trapped at a job that they hate, just to keep their healthcare. But Bernie is getting them out of that enslavement trap by offering them the freedom of choice. And that is worth its weight in gold.
+YourMajesty143READ MY LIPS, IT RAISES TAXES!
+YourMajesty143You don’t know anything about me and the only person trying to take money from me is Bernie Sanders. He is the one wanting to raise taxes.
I just can’t believe they let him talk for 2 minutes without interrupting him. Sanders 2020
Bernie is so amazing he has stepped up
Bernie is the best candidate on the most important issue to American families.
+Josue CorellaI know how it works. Here’s what I think it sucks. It raises taxes, it forces you to pay more, and you don’t get to keep more of your money. I don’t care about healthcare. I care about somebody trying to raise taxes. And I just will refuse to pay.
Harry Mann Jr cheaper is cheaper. If the math of taxes vs healthcare insurance costs turns out better for at least 2 out of 3 Americans, in macroeconomic terms that is cheaper Einstein. Unless you’re making hundreds of thousands a year, in the end it will be cheaper. If you are making hundreds of thousands a year, you don’t have enough peers in your income group to counter the overwhelming numbers of people who don’t & never will make that much. They are the ones who can’t afford medicine or doctors visits. With today’s consistent strong polling numbers for Med4all, your own personal avarice, whether it stems from misunderstanding or pure selfishness, is no longer part of the equation.
Harry Mann Jr, tax cuts for the rich didn’t fly well with American families when it was made law, but they got the shaft from their elected officials anyway. They got nothing.
If you raise their taxes (a TINY bit…), THEN take away the the single largest expense for most families…all while allowing them to KEEP THEIR DOCTORS…?!
#BERNIE2020
Harry Mann Jr, if you refuse to pay, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO STAY HERE!! There are a plethora of nations (all of them second or third world nations, except us…) that will allow you to “keep more of your money”; as you OBVIOUSLY print your own, so you won’t need theirs.
What’s so funny is that, should you take my advise, I’d wager you’d find yourself surrounded by the same type of people you “refuse to pay” to keep alive. Your problem isn’t one of stinginess. You, sir, are morally and intellectually void of coherence. Most Conservatives are, so don’t lose hope. There is no intellectual argument for your position, since you didn’t print and/or otherwise can’t guarantee your own currency. There is no moral argument for your position, since we are the richest, most productive nation in the world, and poorer nations than ours meet this need for their citizens.
In short, you are a sad, small man.
+The Lightning CountThey got their taxes cut under Trump. If Bernie offered me what he is offering, I would tell him no, show him the door, and don’t let it hit you on the way out.
I was thinking about something. The private healthcare system definitely drives the hiring and exploitation of adjunct instructors, having them work at two or three schools at once and still not able to get coverage by design (hiring them just short of full time hours). So yeah, I say good riddance to that system because it’s a cause of cheap, exploitative labor.
By not making clear their stance on Medicare for All, all the other democratic candidates are making it abundantly clear where they stand. Only Bernie actually supports and fights for M4A. #Bernie2020
Including Yang. Hopefully, people will not be dumb enough to fall for the “free money” promise.
+Diego Benalcázar Yang is more than wobbly, stammered about public option in an interview he gave Mike – which at best means that he has not been thinking that through and his advisors have no idea how that works in countries that allow the private insurers too much room.
Without fail healthcare spending goes up for everyone: if the affluent can opt out they will, they retreat to the equipvalent of gated communities and usually there is a push to defund the public agency next – which after all needs subsidies from general tax revenue. The contributions are usually wage related, mandatorty and must be affordable. so like in the U.S. there must be extra funding – but not as much per person as in the U.s. and in funds a COST-EFFICIENT system.
+Diego Benalcázar “Giving the private insurers too much room”: That is usually done when the public system is not comprehensive or sufficiently funded. Else 99 % of the population will use the public insurance coverage and the doctors can rarely and hospitals can never refuse to have a contract with the public agency.
usually if they have a contract they are not allowed to “sell” to the patients (pressuring them to buy something on top) and are also not allowed to discriminate. So everyone gets good services – if not it is only a question of funding, it is not _that_ complicated to run a hospital in a reasonable manner or a doctor’s practice. And to get sufficient funding it is helpful to have all of the population in one boat.
Not only is Bernie right about this issue, but other issues as well!
The fact that he called out Martha for not including the 2nd half of the equation (cost / savings) just like every other disingenuous MSM pundit does was brilliant.
Emphasizing STABILITY was genius.
These Fox hacks had their asses handed to them in every way.
#Bernie2020
The other candidates need Medicare-For-All after the savage beatdowns Bernie keeps giving them.
To be fair to Tulsi she only gets asked about Syria.
They lost medicare and losing college for their profit. They ain’t trying to lose their Golden Goose which is War for Profit aka the U.S.M.I.C
Speaking as a Canadian who is currently going through a situation that’s requiring a lot of doctor visits, tests, etc, all I can say is thank god we don’t have the same system you do.
You’d Die from the Stress of Hospital Bills then your sickness.