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SO EXPAND IT!!!! MEDICARE FOR ALL!!!! TAX US TO DEATH. WE'LL HAVE NO MONEY OR LIFE, AND IT WILL STILL GO BANKRUPT IF YOU TAX US INTO OBLIVION, BUT LET'S DO IT FOR GIGGLES. THIS IS THE VENEZUELA FORMAT.
Lemme start by saying the cotton gin became obsolete when we found a better way.. The health insurance industry is obsolete. Its purpose is to collect money, deny claims, and write checks.. But, if we covered EVERYTHING, there'd be NOTHING to deny, and Medicare already writes checks..
Here's how the math works.. It's simple, really. Let's start with whatever amount, as a nation, we spend on healthcare.. Now, if we SUBTRACT whatever amount the health insurance industry takes, and APPLY it to actual medicine, I suggest we can cover EVERYBODY for EVERYTHING and have money left over for an aircraft carrier or two.
Yes, I feel bad about those insurance workers.. I also felt bad about all those cotton gin workers.
The Sanders plan envisions a future in which all Americans have health coverage and pay nothing out of pocket when they visit the doctor. But you'll be taxed 75% of your paycheck. That's what no cost to you looks like.
That's nice.. My plan is MY plan, and it doesn't matter whether it's the FIRST of it's type.. Go check my math if you don't believe me..
Look.. The math is SIMPLE we start with a LARGE number, and then SUBTRACT the health insurance industry's part, and apply that money directly to health care..
It's pretty simple, really.. You can subtract, can't you??
Now, if you wanna lament the total and complete destruction of the health insurance industry, THAT'S a real argument..
If there was a magic plan that would work, the Communists and Socialist countries would have tried it. Guess what. They tax the hell out of you to cover costs for everyone, then charge you anyway to cover other costs.
Lemme see, MY plan won't work because the Swedish plan doesn't work.. Nor does, the Chinese plan, Bernie Sanders plan, Ocavio Cortez's plan, the Communists plan, or the Socialists plan..
But, you REFUSE to argue with me about MY plan.. DUDE.
Got it.. So, even though it'll cover EVERYBODY for EVERYTING, and even though it'll SAVE lives, and even though it won't cost us a NICKEL more than we're already spending, you'll reject it because of what it's called..
No country exists on Earth that has no health insurance. None. Why do you think that is?
Hello B:
Well, no wonder you don't like MY plan.. You didn't READ it.. IF you did, you'd know that EVERYBODY is covered for EVERYTHING.. In fact, that is the PURPOSE of the plan..
What's NUTS here, is I spell out MY plan, and everybody tells me it won't work because of China, Sweden, Bernie Sanders, Ocasio Cortez, and libs in general..
But, NOBODY has challenged MY plan on MY plans merits.. That's because they're afraid it'll WORK...
Your "plan" shows me nowhere how much you plan to tax me to cover cancer, diabetes, life support etc, or why it won't tank the federal budget if you tax me little or not at all.
Let's face it. You're going to die in the streets. But as a positive note to leave you with. You'll get to find out what your pets taste like.
Nahhh.. I showed you EXACTLY how it would work, where the money comes from, and how you'll NEVER be taxed with my plan because it costs NOTHING more than what we're already SPENDING..
It's pretty simple, really - if you can subtract..
No, the Venezuela format is to make lots of money from your natural resources, spend it on social programs for the poor, and then become the victim of paranoid attacks from the west against the price of oil.
Why does the right wing always do this? It attacks without provocation, and then stands back and proclaims the thing it attacked simply failed of its own accord. Nobody on the right wants to mention the Cold War, because it interferes with the false narrative that Communism collapsed because of its own inherent weakness.
Why does the right wing always do this? It attacks without provocation, and then stands back and proclaims the thing it attacked simply failed of its own accord.
While Marxists have to intentionally attack capitalism because it won't fall organically.
