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Trump’s Deceitful Medicare for All Op-Ed a NIGHTMARE for Fact Checkers
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DAMN ! Even his ghost writer doesn’t have a clue ! I would have thought that you’d be hard pressed to find someone as stupid as Trumpster, but they apparently did it !
That made me so furious when I read it, then Bernie came out and rebutted it and I felt better. Thanks Bernie!
Frederic Bastiat Liberty = a private, for-profit insurance company dictating when, where, and by whom you can receive treatment. ??
+Andrea KaeMedicare, Medicaid, are funded through Govt force. Obey the IRS, or prison. Confiscation of your assets. Men with guns seize your home, auction for taxes. Men with guns guard you in prison. Private Sector insurers do none this. As for “for profit”, getting paid for service is moral.
As Adam Smith wrote, 1776, “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest”
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/adam_smith_136391
Frederic Bastiat what do you think about the govt taking taxes for the military, or to bail out banks and corporations?
Frederic Bastiat also, if you don’t pay your medical bills because insurance didn’t cover them, you will be hounded and may have your wages garnished when it goes to collections.
+Andrea Kae Self defense is moral. A Natural Right. If someone is trying to kill you and beat you for fun, to take your property, rape you, you have a moral right to fight. Therefore, a collective defense is moral too, IF people voluntarily join to support it. Military, police, courts, prisons, gallows all are collective efforts to support an individual right. For reference, the Declaration of Independence in it’s first several paragraphs mentions Laws of Nature, Nature’s God an obvious reference to John Locke’s 2 and treatise on Civil Govt, Natural Rights.
You do not have an individual right to your neighbor’s money for a doctor. Or anything. Your birth doesn’t obligate me to your support. That doesn’t stop you from paying your neighbor’s bills if you practice charity. Go ahead. I support my family. Stepkids in college. Voluntarily.
The Social Contract developed this idea. The rich, the Nobles with their war horses, armour, forged swords protected the serfs farming around the castle. For a share of production. In attack, they had to fight. A deal. I am somewhat conflicted on taxes for it, but the top 20% pay 84% of all income taxes anyway, so it really is a moot point. The rich finance the military anyway right now. The serfs pay nothing today. Their opinion irrelevant.
I oppose bank bailouts, of course. Any bailout. To Granny, or Freddie Mac. Final vote in US House of Representatives for “TARP”, Troubled Asset Repurchase House Bill 1424, 2008, was Dems supporting 172 for, only 63 against, Republicans against 108, for it 93. There would not have been a bailout if there were more Republicans in the House than Dems.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml
I bet the orange man failed social studies because he can’t keep the history of his narrative correct
when our kids read history books and ask us how we allowed this to happen to our society i wonder what we will say.
that’s not the point of the question
But, if it makes you feel better, I am extremely aware of that and this was taught to me in public school in the 70’s, I did not have to figure it out on the internet… my question is what are kids reading in history books in current times about this? and what are people people saying about how this was allowed to happen?… but, most of all the question was meant to prompt deeper thinking about how every society has allowed all kinds of things like “this to happen to our society” … what we are saying now about slavery and it’s subsequent consequences? and how is what we are saying about these discretions from the past moving us forward?
+Frederic Bastiat actually, Nixon allowing healthcare to become for profit is what lead to the explosion in cost. You’re complaining about the bandaid solution the two parties came up with to keep their stock dividends.
+Frederic Bastiat you want to talk about stupid, in 1965 we didn’t have a military bigger than the next 12 nations combined. A military that big doesn’t come cheap, use that lump on your shoulders for something more than a hatrack.
Medicare for all hardly leaves out seniors so they are not losing anything on upgrading Medicare to include everyone also have it include dental and a 20% they don’t cover that’s all that has to happen it’s already in place it already is up and running good enough to increase it to all
me too.
+Judy Meyer my best to you
+Harry Hightower Basically as long as a country advances a certain amount universal health care is just the right choice. I mean most of the richest countries in the world have it, and even the middling but developed ones.
Its basically an obvious choice for the modern age, I don’t know why the US is so frightened of it.
+Harry Hightower my best to you and getting that 20% covered. I live up in Massachusetts and MassHealth covers at and it doesn’t cost anything. But when I was in Connecticut it did not cover that and I did have a substantial Bill do because I could not come close to affording the 20% that they added on to that’s Medicare didn’t cover. It’s crazy what a imaginary made up little Line in the Sand or dirt will do. One side of it you’re completely legal and the other side your left out in the cold to freeze and die. that’s basically what it is when you cross state lines, nowadays
Didn’t that orange by phone as a candidate say that he would not leave anyone behind on health insurance while this is the one and only way to do so
Watch his base eat it up. Better yet, watch the corporate dems throw their hands up and walk away from proving him wrong.
Trump knows that most countries have universal healthcare, Canada and Mexico BOTH have universal healthcare, so why the hell would they come here illegally to get healthcare?
A lot of people GO TO MEXICO or CANADA for their healthcare because it’s unaffordable here
Bluebelle51 …. I have family that live on the Mexican border, they go there all the time for medical care… they take there animals there also..
Jose Mendoza … Yep, I know people who always go to Mexico for dental care …
+Jazwinskull Hey, Fukwit leftists!! If Ford’s were free to the people because Govt paid for them, demand would soar! Everyone would get one! Two! Three! A truck, a small car, a big car, an SUV and a luxury model. Yep! That’s the way to reduce spending on cars! Make them FREE to consumers!
Israel has single payer health care, and america could have it too for the cost of all the munitions given to Israel every year.
Stupid, leftist trash! “” The Fraser Institute, a Canadian public policy think tank, estimates that 52,513 Canadians received non-emergency medical treatment in the U.S. and other countries in 2014, a 25 percent jump from the roughly 41,838 who sought medical care abroad the previous year.”” https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-03/canadians-increasingly-come-to-us-for-health-care.
It’s called Medicare for all. Does he really think people are that dumb?
Trump voters ARE that dumb.
Pete Gromov some of them are. Some of them are just people who want jobs and opportunity for prosperity. But the ones who wanted opportunity mostly gave up on trump early on, the only ones left are the delusional ones.
I saw a woman wearing a MAGA hat calling Trump a monster. Apparently she used to be a big supporter. It was the weirdest sight I’ve come across in some time.
This is the WAR of LvR (Left vs. Right) Humanity, vs. Greed.
*CAPITALISM vs COMMUNISM*
At this point, I’ll stand with Social Democracy.
@Fresno Bob
Welcome my fellow communist.
No the people vs the government it dont matter if ur left or right medicare for all is for all even if both parties have disagreements we all still have similiar goals and ideas there’s a balance
And our president continues to be a joke.
The biggest joke in American history.
Actually the first part of the headline is a lie that it’s the Democrat’s Medicare For All. Democrats are against it – it’s more the Independent Sander program with a couple Dems. I know my two senators don’t want Medicare For All. Klobuchar & Smith of Minnesota.
yea, that’s the further proof that a lot of democrats are still centrist/corporate democrats. Its an American politician thing.
Glad to hear that, thanks for reporting.
Are you saying that if we had medicare for all that this would somehow mean that they are not supporting industry?
Stupid, leftist trash! “” The Fraser Institute, a Canadian public policy think tank, estimates that 52,513 Canadians received non-emergency medical treatment in the U.S. and other countries in 2014, a 25 percent jump from the roughly 41,838 who sought medical care abroad the previous year.”” https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-03/canadians-increasingly-come-to-us-for-health-care
My premiums just went up $140 a month due to Cuts in subsidies. So tell me more you effing liar (Trump)
The reason why articles like this are printed — that are so blatantly false — is because they WORK! Millions will read this, or at best the headline, and be convinced that medicare for all is evil. It’s great that people like yourself make videos pointing out the gross lies, but where’s the editorial that picks it apart that also gets widespread exposure? Without that, this will stand. The republicans are going to win a lot next month. My theory — outside of Christian creatards who love Trump — is that many people think that chaos is great fun. And so Trump is great fun (“Lock her up! Lock her up!”). They don’t see themselves as being affected. And millions of others are just apathetic. I hope I’m wrong.
eh sounds about right. In fact I predicted Trump would win the election specifically for reasons like this and I’m afraid he may win it again. Until things get extreme for both sides and the left starts getting just as extreme which is really good for no-one.
I hope you are wrong to.
GOP how is Kansas working out for you? Everytime they say Venezuela we need to remind them of the failed Republican experiment called Kansas.
Dan A What happened in Kansas?
+Green Square it is the great Republican tax experiment that has failed to deliver any of the promises they claim. But on the state level the GOP has crashes the Kansas economy with the same policies they are now implementing at the federal level.
Thanks Mike for thoroughly breaking this down. I appreciate the hard work you put into your videos. Keep up the great content!
Bernie/Tulsi 2020 #MedicareforAll #EndTheWars
Mike, there’s another issue ! Those of us lucky enough to have insurance through work would be free to job hop ( not be trapped in job due to insurance) PLUS have more take home pay . I don’t think corporations would welcome that !
Hands off of Medicare and social security your not touching my medicine and money donald trump. Go Bernie make Medicare for all.
Optimus JudyHopps, have all your friends and family vote Democrat.