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Here here! We want universal healthcare and we want the rich to pay for it! Force their asses to actually contribute to the country and communities they bleed daily.

"But for me to get Universal Healthcare, that means someone else will get Universal Healthcare, including brown People, and black People, and gay/trans People,... and that's not the America I want to be part of", ... says every eligible & able voter who doesn't vote, or votes Republican.

Roughly 2-3%, if 10k monthly pay = $300 at worst for example. Full coverage, no bills, ambulance free. No worries. Not forgetting, you stop paying when you reach pension age.

First tell them to make their underwriting details transparent. Especially in the Blue States. Every decision must be verifiable.

This *is* what we should do, but I foresee a problem… Health insurance tied to your job ties you to your job. I suspect that a lot of employers like it that way. Fixing the problem needs to take that into account.

This guy is a force.

We should also start pointing out US companies have expenses companies in other countries don't have. Health insurance. If they can stop paying for our Health Insurance, they could pay us higher wages.

Talk to someone in a country with universal health care and compare net pay in a comparable job. You might be very surprised.

We would have to, but those of us who aren’t wealthy would save on paying less than we are in insurance premiums.

Even a reasonable insurance premium would be a big improvement. Like Obama’s Public Option. A non profit government owned health insurance company. Like Medicare.

agree! Only way that is going to happen is if we unite within 85 days, and vote Blue! Get all the cowards out!

Americans have been propagandized by the healthcare establishment to not want universal healthcare 🤬 I wonder how much doing away with tax deductions for private insurance would help paying for government health care

Hell yes

The Republicans want all their cronies and donors to continue making money acting as insurers and middlemen. Private profits that add up to the largest administrative costs of any national healthcare system in the world.

Boom 💥

Is this the year the US finally reaches 1946 levels of economic development?

I fell and broke bones in both my feet on Friday. Ambulance to emergency, x-rays, saw the emergency doctor, got crutches and shower chair, taxi home, and follow up appointments arranged at the fracture clinic. Cost? Zero Where am I? The Communist Republic of Australia.

When looking at the 4 primary types of political economy you can see that many countries have been extremely successful with social democracy. The ppl there are considered to be some of the happiest in the world & also have less crime. I have no problem with using taxes for ppl over ballrooms & war

Maybe a better question is why are we continuing to fund corporate welfare queens and their lavish lifestyles?

There were ~80 Fortune 500 companies who paid zero dollars in taxes last year. However will they manage if they had to pay taxes!

Governing shouldn't be this hard. The media can't comprehend that proper governing can and should work if we we structure it to work for the people and not United Healthcare.

Imagine how much better it you could deal with your employer if your families healthcare wasn’t on the line. What if it was just about working conditions and wages

Yes! Yes! Yes! Please, we NEED universal healthcare for all citizens. Just like the smarter civilized nations in the world. Nobody should have to go bankrupt because they got sick.

The billionaires need to pay a lot more in taxes

As long as mainstream medias are against him, he'll have a tough time getting his message across. It's obvious they don't support him. He's a threat to them because all news hosts make over a million a year.

But but but What taxes would you have left to murder brown children in the middle east? Surely the people who caused Jesus to die on the cross so they could continue to make money, in their temples, would be angry? Won't someone think of the medieval death cult instead of their own family's?

Also, if that CEO paid their fair share in taxes and that Health Insurance Corporation paid their fair share....

“I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care”. Consider proofreading your posts🧐

We would pay more in takes but we would have more money in our pockets because he wouldn't be paying +$300 per person for health insurance. M4A would save us $$ Not cost us more

#Vote 😎🗽🇺🇸

For profit insurance companies do not belong in Healthcare.

Little known fact, companies get a nice tax cut as an incentive to offer (crappy) healthcare to employees. If companies had to pay that money as a tax, it could help fund universal healthcare w/o us paying too much more.

save you're hate for someone who rapes children. She's not a good reporter, she doesn't know how to ask the follow up. She's taken the chicken shit way out in a few interviews. But hates a strong word.

Yes yes yes

Don’t forget that Trump with complicit Republicans started A War & now our troops are not getting enough food, or necessities to live on - meanwhile the Liar & Chief lives like a king & continues his corruption & hateful policies while we are paying a steep price for his incompetence & stupidity

Definitely seems to be a pattern associated with Reagan…

Let’s fucking go.

Amen

OMG DEMOCRATS! THIS! RUN ON THIS! WE ARE DYING OUT HERE

Great. The big week CEOs they make too much money doing nothing just sitting on their big old fat asses.

Another bonus is no more healthcare corporations looting our taxpayer funds!

Yes! Get everyone into the Medicare pool, including the young and healthy who still need that risk protection

Prices will drop w the predators excluded.

we also have a national disability scheme that provides in home care and social services to disabled and elderly. Would be nice to have free dental but we're working on that

Australian here, we have a 2% levy on income and it pays for our Medicare system and Pharmaceutical benefits. Public hospitals are free, meds basically cost around $30 for a box that lasts a month with a capped max yearly cost.

Exactly. Not to mention the situations in which you get injured and you're covered by a premium insurance, and in the end, you still get a hospital bill in thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. That's crazy.

Popular politics is driven by sloganism. Here, they just slap a label on it, "socialism", and for many Americans that's like invoking the antichrist. Neither reason nor logic ever enter the equation.

As long as it covered things - yes. But if we ust switch from one system that won't cover procedures and necessary things to another system that rejects claims and won't cover things then what's the point? We all pay for some kind of health care - we just want to get it.

Canada style health care. Has its warts but mostly works.

Honestly, this is what we should have been doing all along.

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How about making all corps pay a fee to fund healthcare in America based on their employment levels and profits? Everyone needs it and everyone pays for healthcare one way or another.

Not to mention the cost of advertising, lobbying, tax accounting, dividends, investor relations, etc.

The majority of the “developed world” has managed it. The US is more interested in making a few white men richer.

The average UHC nation pays 60% of what the USA pays for healthcare. Because we're paying for lobbying and advertisements and corporate profits. But we can't do it because some people are convinced that taxes are evil and/or they'll be damned before anyone else gets something for free.

Every other country in the world seems to love having healthcare for all!

AMEN!

Yep. I’m in Australia & it works for us. I have family in Canada & they say it works for them too.

Sorry “paid a little more in taxes” for the pedants.

Billionaires HATE being eliminated from the equation.

To be fair, they'd also lose the chance of being smited by a mario character

We need it! CEO s don’t deserve millions upon millions.

does anyone actually believe that an old white dude (probably; almost certainly) should make 63,000% more than what their lowest paid employees make?

This is still a problem. Our healthcare goes up exponentially each year and it’s killing our manufacturing jobs. That and energy make us highly uncompetitive.

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I’m not sure it’s more in taxes. If you take 75-50% of what we pay in to insurance companies I’m sure we’d all have comprehensive medical, dental, hearing, home care, nursing homes & drugs at zero cost-pay. money That includes employer covering employees care. And those percentages maybe lower.

Geez. In America we would have had to take out a second mortgage!

The United States is not Sweden.

Everyone should read this .. dispels most myths about why we can’t have it here. Also the case is a more simple, moral one. We decided to let people suffer and die vs giving them the care they need. No system is perfect

#medicareforall

My family of 3 pays $17k per year just in premiums. Our deductible is $6k. OOP max is $13k. You could double my taxes and it would still be cheaper than taxes plus insurance. The capitalist propaganda has poisoned generations over this. It’s insane.

That's the French system our government is trying to destroy.

I find it notable that Elizabeth Warren tried running for president on this and it tanked her presidential run, because the voters instantly balked at the idea of taxes being raised even after being told it'd be the same or less than the premiums it'd replace. Did we perhaps mature since then?

Taxes are a fixed cost. You know each paycheck how much will be taken out. Our current system is a complete unknown. Job loss or an illness is catastrophic for many.

It is cruelty that your health care is tied to your job in a tumultuous economy. I have a great job with great health care included. I recognize my privilege in that. Even so, all it takes is a few bad quarters, and the company could lay me off. Then what?

Absolutely 👍🏾

America is the only advanced nation in the world without universal healthcare for all citizens We are not great 🤬

We were the only Country in the World Cup that DOESN'T have universal healthcare.

I just had emergency surgery last Monday. I’m also 25 years cancer survivor. I will get a bill for $45 for the ambulance. My family paid for parking when visiting me. I’m Canadian and universal healthcare has saved my life 3 times.

My healthcare premiums are more than my mortgage.

It’ll never happen even though 150 countries have socialized medicine. So many people have been brainwashed against it. America citizens are the world leaders at voting against their own interests, or voting for people that vote against their interests.

Imagine being a small business owner who didn't have to deal with this shit anymore.

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On the other hand it is fun getting a surprise 4-figure bill because even though you went to an in-network facility, it turned out the secretary behind the desk was out of network. Oh and one of the tests they ran wasn't covered but you had no way of ever knowing this.

I sure hope Democrats & Independents start supporting Abdul cuz the MAGATS are out to get him & that dark money is huge!

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social Healthcare costs are the number one drag on small business payrolls It will put more money into your weekly paycheck It will shield you from medical bankruptcy Every doctor will be in service It will stop giving money to people make money by not giving it back

Since my monthly premium is $1500, I guarantee my annual tax increase would be nowhere near 20,000! I’d pay $2000 more PER YEAR for M4A and Bernie’s numbers had our tax burden lower than even that. My savings would be astronomical

One of the things I'm so grateful here (🇬🇧) is never having to worry if I can afford to see my doctor. Or, if I have an accident or get seriously ill, that my insurance won't cover it. It's a freedom that we take for granted. Long live the British NHS.

Every other democratic country be like,,, Wake Up America!

If only someone had pointed this out to @hillaryclinton.bsky.social back in '93.

Makes sense.

...as it is in most every other country in the world that isn't on life support

Healthcare for all won’t cost much more since single payer cuts way back on overhead for docs, less admin needed to run the program, and care the goal not profit

Like Obama attempting to reform healthcare, El-Sayed begins with the assumption that we have to live with insurance companies controlling our lives. We're the only country in the world that assigns an essential *human right* like healthcare to the greedy insurance industry. Why?

Great also for entrepreneurship! Start your dream business!

"But! But! The taxes!" Kristin, darling. I love you, but we ALREADY pay the tax. Dr el Sayed already explained how

A bit more in taxes commiserate to a reduction on overall medical costs (insurance, copay and pop) and ease of system use (surprise!) would be refreshing

Why does he hate Michigan’s UP? Is he bullshitting everyone?

Polite correction: If you pay "a little bit more in taxes" for healthcare it's pre-purchased 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚. It means you don't get extra bills. Rethuglicons are already saying Dems like to give "free stuff". That isn't true 𝙄𝙁 you've pre-paid via your taxes.

The King of comeback 🥰

In many developed countries, we don't have to imagine it. The issue, as so often, is capitalism. That's why they're trying to frighten you with "communism".

I got diagnosed with large B cell lymphoma in August, saw a haematologist/oncologist in September, started treatment in October. The only reason for the delay was, I didn’t know if I wanted to do treatment. The cost- max $12 parking per visit.

Oh we Canadians love that lie. If it is urgent you get treated. If it is an optional surgery you will wait.

The smug American is dead wrong. My husband and I have a family doctor and we have specialists for our health issues. Several years ago, my husband was diagnosed with colon cancer. A month later, he had the surgery. I had a knee replacement - wait time...6 months. Appointment with our GP...next day.