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| Topic | "How are you going to pay for universal healthcare?" |
| Darkman124 07/20/18 9:57:14 PM #20: | really the question is "What are we already paying for our existing healthcare system?" republicans don't think of tax deductions as payments, but they are. at present we subsidize about half the employer-based healthcare system, which is highly inefficient and costs far too much per person to be sustainable. how do you pay for UHC? by killing the employer system and stripping away those tax breaks. which is to say, by killing UNH, Aetna, etc. because without the tax subsidies, and in the face of competition that is free, they'd die. and people who work middle class and upper middle class jobs would have to either pay a LOT more, or accept the lower overall standard of a universal care system, in exchange for the removal of the inane bullshit inherent in working with private insurance. there'd be significant growing pains. and republicans would take any opportunity voters gave them to break it. --- And when the hourglass has run out, eternity asks you about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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