ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

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(01-15-2017, 08:23 PM)Odin Wrote:

(01-15-2017, 10:56 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(01-14-2017, 11:03 PM)Odin Wrote:

(01-14-2017, 10:18 AM)flbones too Wrote: I don't understand why politicians are making this health care thing more complicated than it needs to be. Just expand Medicare for everyone. it's not that complicated.

A lot of people already get insurance through their employer and those people don't want to pay the higher taxes needed for a single payer system. It's "I've got mine, fuck you".

More like, "I'd rather keep paying for my efficient private insurance than pay more for an inferior public monopoly like the VA or NHS."

Medicare as it currently exists can't even survive retirement of the full baby boom; even now, it has gotten sufficiently inadequate that supplemental insurance is pretty much required.

I have to agree with David, here, Medicare is vastly superior to private insurance. Your ideology is blinding you, Warren.

It's way more cheaper for someone his age that's for sure. I don't think its vastly superior to the private insurance that I've had available to me as an employee and later provided for my employees.