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Single payer, ACA or private insurance?

Which would you rather have?

of-the-mountain 9 Aug 10
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Our government spends more on the Defense Department at $700 Billion four times than on any programs that the Obstructionist label entitlements!

Defense spending is the biggest corporate welfare system!!!

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Medicare for all. I don't have a link, but read s report that it takes medicare 3cents vs. 10cents for private insurance to cover the same care because Medicare is a non profit government agency. If you take out profit you will save money. Why else we ould the GOP care if not about the money.

[consumerwatchdog.org]
Here's a link about the cost difference

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I would prefer the option that costs less, covers most, and is more efficient, when I can compare all three options.

Right now, I technically have private insurance (Blue Cross) funded by my government employer, so which category do I fall in?

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Definitely single payer.

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Single Payer … it’s where The ACA was designed to take us ..and the bad guys knew/ know it ~

Varn Level 8 Aug 10, 2019
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Universal care. My husband and I had many insurance plans through the years. There is not one that I would prefer over a single pay system. One year we met our 5 thousand ded and our out of pocket max. That cost about 15 grand. On top of the 258. monthly premiums. Private insurance sucks unless you're a member of congress or the senate.

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There is no reason why the US cannot have a public system that covers everyone alongside a supplemental private system for those who want it (like New Zealand has).

Polititans would lose their votes by calling it socialist welfare.

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A national health care system. This idea that young people should not have to pay into a system is a more than stupid argument. Young people get sick. Young people get pregnant. Young people have babies with health issues. Our health care system is as immoral as our gun laws. If a government is not set up to take care of its people, what is its purpose. If providing a big military and a highway system is it, then that makes North Korea one of the greatest countries in human history.

@Sticks, our government is set up to give welfare to the defense fund. It gets far more money than any other single entity. They in turn make a few people very very wealthy.
And let's not forget congress and senate. They do well for themselves too. Everyone else can die poor and sick.

@freeofgod I know, but it is the American people that let it happen and then whine about it. We are a pathetic society.

@Sticks48 I haven't missed a vote in 38 years. You?

@freeofgod Nope. I grew up in politics. I was on the campaign trail from elementary school on. By the time I hit my mid-twenties I was sick of all of it. Stayed away from all of it for about three decades, and was happier for it. Started voting again about twenty years ago. Until we get term limits, ban lobbyists, get corporate money out of politics, and eliminate the electoral college, all we have is a pretend democracy anyway. We always worry about Presidents and we should, but the real culprit is the Congress. They are why little or nothing gets done in Washington. Yet we keep sending the same folks back to do the same shit. The Senate is where seats change the least., because it is never "our guy or gal", it's the other guys.

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Universal health care or single payer.

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I just want everyone to have affordable health care. I really do not care how it is done as long as no one dies because they can not get proper treatment or afford their medications.

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