Sen. Bernie Sanders released details of his Medicare-for-all health plan hours ahead of NBC News' Democratic debate. CNN's Eric Bradner has the latest.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders released details of his Medicare-for-all health plan hours ahead of NBC News' Democratic debate. CNN's Eric Bradner has the latest.
#1 cause of bankruptcy is the U.S.: Medical Bills…
Single Payer? Sign me up.
+YesYou123333
did you ever finish school or were you content in rolling carts for
walmart? you can say whatever you want about Canada cause I dont think you
even finished high school to know about the current events, trades, and
international relations. atleast Canada doesn’t flash around guns and kill
small children’s and be racist to non whites. I just hope that your greed
power hungry attitude doesn’t create a nuclear Holocaust. even a stupid
dumb mofo will see sanders will put US on the right side of the history for
once. If you people miss this chance you will never ever get this
revolutionary person again… never ever…. also stop corrupting Canada by
smuggling your coward guns.
+YesYou123333 I thought you fascists liked Putin.
+proteuseffects Are you afraid of the truth? This communist pig should be
deported to Russia where he can join his comrades.
+proteuseffects Sanders is a socialist pig and deserves to be shoveled onto
the dust heap of history like all other failed philosophies. No working man
in his right mind would vote for this communist.
TRUTH ABOUT BERNIE: THE NEW YORK POST
As polls tighten and self-described socialist Bernie Sanders looks more
like a serious contender than a novelty candidate for president, the
liberal media elite have suddenly stopped calling him socialist. He’s now
cleaned-up as a “progressive” or “pragmatist.”
But he’s not even a socialist. He’s a communist.
Mainstreaming Sanders requires whitewashing his radical pro-Communist past.
It won’t be easy to do.
If Sanders were vying for a Cabinet post, he’d never pass an FBI background
check. There’d be too many subversive red flags popping up in his file. He
was a Communist collaborator during the height of the Cold War.
Rewind to 1964.
While attending the University of Chicago, Sanders joined the Young
People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA. He
also organized for a communist front, the United Packinghouse Workers
Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on
Un-American Activities.
After graduating with a political-science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont,
where he headed the American People’s History Society, an organ for Marxist
propaganda. There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of
socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during
the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as “America’s greatest Marxist.”
This subversive hero of Sanders, denounced even by liberal Democrats as a
“traitor,” bashed “the barons of Wall Street” and hailed the “triumphant”
Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
“Those Russian comrades of ours have made greater sacrifices, have suffered
more, and have shed more heroic blood than any like number of men and women
anywhere on earth,” Debs proclaimed. “They have laid the foundation of the
first real democracy that ever drew the breath of life in this world.”
In a 1918 speech in Canton, Ohio, Debs reaffirmed his solidarity with Lenin
and Trotsky, despite clear evidence of their violent plunder and treachery.
Sanders still hangs a portrait of Debs on the wall in his Senate office.
In the early ’70s, Sanders helped found the Liberty Union Party, which
called for the nationalization of all US banks and the public takeover of
all private utility companies.
“Mainstreaming Sanders requires whitewashing his radical pro-Communist
past. It won’t be easy to do.”
After failed runs for Congress, Sanders in 1981 managed to get elected
mayor of Burlington, Vt., where he restricted property rights for
landlords, set price controls and raised property taxes to pay for communal
land trusts. Local small businesses distributed fliers complaining their
new mayor “does not believe in free enterprise.”
His radical activities didn’t stop at the ¬water’s edge.
Sanders took several “goodwill” trips not only to the USSR, but also to
Cuba and Nicaragua, where the Soviets were trying to expand their influence
in our hemisphere.
In 1985, he traveled to Managua to celebrate the rise to power of the
Marxist-Leninist Sandinista government. He called it a “heroic revolution.”
Undermining anti-communist US policy, Sanders denounced the Reagan
administration’s backing of the Contra rebels in a letter to the
Sandinistas.
His betrayal did not end there. Sanders lobbied the White House to stop the
proxy war and even tried to broker a peace deal. He adopted Managua as a
sister city and invited Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega to visit the US. He
exalted Ortega as “an impressive guy,” while attacking President Reagan.
“The Sandinista government has more support among the Nicaraguan people —
substantially more support — than Ronald Reagan has among the American
people,” Sanders told Vermont government-access TV in 1985.
Sanders also adopted a Soviet sister city outside Moscow and honeymooned
with his second wife in the USSR. He put up a Soviet flag in his office,
shocking even the Birkenstock-wearing local liberals. At the time, the Evil
Empire was on the march around the world, and threatening the US with
nuclear annihilation.
Then, in 1989, as the West was on the verge of winning the Cold War,
Sanders addressed the national conference of the US Peace Council — a known
front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to
the Soviet Union but to “the triumph of Soviet power in the US.”
Today, Sanders wants to bring what he admired in the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua
and other communist states to America.
For starters, he proposes completely nationalizing our health-care system
and putting private health insurance and drug companies “out of business.”
He also wants to break up “big banks” and control the energy industry,
while providing “free” college tuition, a “living wage” and guaranteed
homeownership and jobs through massive public works projects. Price tag:
$18 trillion.
Who will pay for it all? You will. Sanders plans to not only soak the rich
with a 90%-plus tax rate, while charging Wall Street a “speculation tax,”
but hit every American with a “global-warming tax.”
Of course, even that wouldn’t cover the cost of his communist schemes; a
President Sanders would eventually soak the middle class he claims to
champion. From each according to his ability, to each according to his
need, right?
Comrade from Vermont
Former mayoral advisers from Burlington defend their old boss. They note
that Sanders was never a member of the Communist Party and deny he was even
a small-c communist, even while acknowledging he named their city softball
squad the “People’s Republic of Burlington” and the town’s minor league
baseball team the “Vermont Reds.”
What about those communist sister cities he adopted? “Bernie established
them to support people-to-people exchanges which might support peace in the
long run,” said Bruce ¬Seifer, who was one of Sanders’ central economic
planners directing Burlington businesses to “reinvest their profits in the
community.”
In an interview, Seifer claimed that it was “no different than President
Nixon opening relations with China.”
Please. Sanders and his Sanderistas are all still pining for what Debs
called “the Greater Revolution yet to come.”
What’s revolting is how this hardcore commie’s campaign has gotten this
far. With his ascendancy in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders is no
longer just a fool; he’s now a dangerous fool.
While it may be hard to hate the old codger, it’s easy — and virtuous — to
hate his un-American ideas. They should be swept into the dustbin with the
rest of communist history.
Paul Sperry is a visiting Hoover Institution media fellow and author of
“The Great American Bank Robbery,” which exposes progressive policies
behind the mortgage bust.
HE’S A LOUSY COMMUNIST AND TRAITOR
15 trillion vs what we spend now? How is that a bad deal?
+YesYou123333 “Waiting to see a doctor for 6 months makes it a bad idea.”
Perhaps it would be if it were actually true, but it’s not. Your misguided
claim is only a right wing propaganda point (pronounced LIE) derived from
distorting and twisting the wait time for some ELECTIVE surgeries to mean
routine doctor’s visits. Have you checked to see how long the wait is for
some elective surgeries in this country? Stop being so gullible and do a
little honest research for yourself for a change.
+Lisa Lowery “15 trillion vs what we spend now? How is that a bad deal?”
And curiously, they NEVER mention that $15 trillion figure is over a ten
year period. I guess $15T does sound a whole lot scarier if someone
assumes that is per year. Just one more subtle way the corporate media
manipulates voters in this country.
+YesYou123333 Except that’s not how it works. Coming from a country with a
single payer system, I can confirm that. Or rather, the waiting times may
not get shorter, but they won’t get longer because of the single payer
system.
+Lisa Lowery Waiting to see a doctor for 6 months makes it a bad idea.
We are already paying much higher healthcare taxes that’s call the premium,
except to the insurance companies. I can’t believe these CNN reporters are
so stupid that they can’t figure that out.
There is an ancient Chinese story about people like this. It goes like
this: A zoologist (yeah, they had zoology in ancient China) raised a group
of monkeys. As he found it hard to provide them buffet style of meals, he
suggested to them that he would give each of them 3 acorns in the morning
and 4 acorns in the evening. All the monkeys were angry. Then he suggested
that he would rather give them 4 acorns in the morning and 3 acorns in the
evening. This time, all monkeys are satisfied. (I guess they had the
conversation in the morning.)
Lets hope Americans are not a group of monkeys.
They’re not stupid (well they are stupid, for other reasons)
The News Stations all know very well that Bernie is the answer…
they are just paid to assume that all Americans are idiots, and therefore
cater their propagandist news with the assumption that we (Americans) will
buy the crap.
They are stupid because they are following a corrupt system, instead of
empowering the American people with true knowledge/information.
It’s just Money buying Politics buying the news spreading propaganda,
wishfully hoping that Americans are dumb enough to take the bait.
Empower yourselves, America
#VoteBERNIE4president
Are you that fucken daft CNN! It’s basic math! You won’t be paying for
insurance! So you’d save in the long run, both Businesses and Families!
29 million people in this country are still without any health insurance.
As Senator Sanders correctly points out, the USA is the only
industrialized country in the world in which health care isn’t a RIGHT of
all people! Let’s agree these private ( for-profit ) health insurance
companies need to be put out of business and find another industry to
fleece people instead.
+Steve W You’re playing russian roulette with your life dude. Get cancer
and your financially ruined for life without insurance. Highly
irresponsible.
+Steve W You’re an idiot. When you find a cancerous lump in your testicle
we’ll be paying for your treatment because you don’t want insurance!
+Steve W Bullshit…. Health insurance costs were WAY higher before the
Affordable Care Act was passed. That’s the man reason they did it.
just did the math, would save my family 8000 a year
+Chucky Justice “Fucking degenerate millennial deadbeats”
You missed it again. I’m in my thirties, earn way above country’s average
and this will save me a lot of money while provide more security… What’s
not to support here?
+ominous450 you don’t listen Rich people (maybe you) are going to pay what
they should. Wallstreet will pay for especulations. No more policing the
world. no more blindness to money on Fiscal paradise., no more abuse from
Insurance companies, etc..etc…Plus plus..
Pass those “savings” onto your grandchildren. Yay. $18 trillion dollar
added to national debt just so that you and your family can save $8000 a
year for 10 years. Yay
Fucking degenerate millennial deadbeats
It will save 5 trillion you stupid blonde.
+David Rook It will bankrupt it by saving 5 trillion.
+Roberto Giménez That five Trillion will be made up in taxes, breaking
the backs of the middle class while the wealthy will leave the U.S. like it
is on fire and burning down. Bernie could very easily bankrupt the U.S.
overnight.
+David Rook Tell me something I don’t know.
+Roberto Giménez But it comes out of your paycheck in what we call
taxes….
These CNN media puppets and the Clinton Camp are spouting the rhetoric that
Bernie is going to “tax” the country to pay for this program and implying
that he is covering it up by calling it a “public premium.” For those
people who don’t get it, THINK!
If you STOP paying premiums to a private insurance company, you save that
money and put it back into your pocket. Now, you pay a premium of 2.2% from
your paycheck and get healthcare ANY TIME YOU NEED IT and NEVER GET YOUR
CLAIM DENIED! Would you rather continue to pay a private healthcare
insurance company and get your claims denied, resulting in either paying
for all the medical expenses on your own or not getting care that you need?
+Steve W
Not knowing your personal situation, I don’t know. How many more people
are in your situation? I don’t know. Are you in a majority or a minority
of the population? I don’t know. Do I think you have a legitimate gripe?
Maybe. One question to you is, what are you going to do about your
situation? Bernie’s campaign is about getting people involved. Maybe you
should be getting involved and make changes in the system for people in
your situation. Other questions are, what will you do if you get diagnosed
with cancer or diabetes? Will you sign up for heath insurance then? Would
you rather try to get it thru private health insurance or Obamacare?
+steve blah lol yea ok bro
+Steve W Nice “human” response spambot.
+Paul Atreides Are you serious? That is how you counter my arguments?
Typical
it would save me around 3000 …. I can live with that! :)
+vladimir cruz Your win fall will be lost in increased taxes.
right
Its a 2% tax which is not that big of a deal >.> consider i wont have to
pay for health insurance under the new system. Sign me up.
#NotNews #RealBernieTaxes WE DONT FUCKING WANT TO BE GOUGED BY THE BIG
PHARMA ANY MORE!!! THEY SUCK! BERNIE ROCKS!
+Dan Harp He is attacking us, not the big insurance companies or big
pharma, or for that matter the rising costs of the medical profession.
#feelthebern
SUBTLE PRO CLINTON RHETORIC FOR THE BEWILDERED HERD.
YOU MAY FOOL THE ALEX JONES TRASH. BUT WHAT ACCOMPLISHMENT IS THAT?
NULL.
+NWOÜberAlles
Stay classy.
+NWOÜberAlles ACCESS DENIED.
I support this plan.
CNN, I figured the whole point was that people will be paying less than
before.
Hey CNN person When you save Money on Health Care _ IE Business will save
about $9,000 per person per year in Premiums savings cost and The average
Consumer will save between $1200 and $5000 in Premium savings and NO COPAYS
and NO DEDUCTIBLES – Saving that amount of money is NOT I Repeat NOT and
Increase at all. #FEELTHEBERN