Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" plan is really expensive over a 10-year period....

[Aegon]

[Cecelia]

I support single payer. Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege.

[Anomalocaris]

I support single payer.  Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege.

The problem is how much healthcare, and who determines when too much material cost to others is being incurred by the exercise of one person’s right?

[Minimalist]

Well now its being done by insurance company scumbags who get bonuses for denying coverage so it wouldn't bother me to have someone without a financial interest making the decisions.

[Tiberius]

Sure, it's done by a libertarian think tank partially funded by the Koch Brothers, but it is a scholarly study.

I think the fact that it was done by a libertarian think tank, funded partially by the right-wing Koch brothers, should actually be seen as a positive, seeing as both generally oppose single-payer.

I don't personally support single-payer. I don't think it's the best way to go in the US.

Just out of interest, and since you have a "Healthcare is a Human Right" image in your signature, what do you support instead of single-payer?

[Anomalocaris]

Well now its being done by insurance company scumbags who get bonuses for denying coverage so it wouldn't bother me to have someone without a financial interest making the decisions.

True enough.

But even very bad and unfair allocation of scarce resources is preferable to a free for all where everyone thinks he has unlimited claim to the scarce resource.

[ReptilianPeon]

Reverse the Republican tax cuts for billionaires and that'll pay for free healthcare and university education for all. Why do TV pundits not talk about the cost of tax cuts for the 1%? Why is it that we can afford tax cuts but not things which actually help the average person.

[Minimalist]

Why do TV pundits not talk about the cost of tax cuts for the 1%?

Because the 1% own the stations they work for.

[Anomalocaris]

Reverse the Republican tax cuts for billionaires and that'll pay for free healthcare and university education for all. Why do TV pundits not talk about the cost of tax cuts for the 1%? Why is it that we can afford tax cuts but not things which actually help the average person.

Because Americans are so drunk with how great America is in fantasy, they would sooner be stripped like a chicken being plucked for the pot to protect the delusion that they are part of that imaginary greatness, than actually see how disgraceful it is becoming.

[Aegon]

Sure, it's done by a libertarian think tank partially funded by the Koch Brothers, but it is a scholarly study.

I think the fact that it was done by a libertarian think tank, funded partially by the right-wing Koch brothers, should actually be seen as a positive, seeing as both generally oppose single-payer.

I don't personally support single-payer. I don't think it's the best way to go in the US.

Just out of interest, and since you have a "Healthcare is a Human Right" image in your signature, what do you support instead of single-payer?

Too many Americans have and like their employer provided private insurance for single payer to gain widespread traction. From what I know, a two tier system where you can choose between public and private would be the best way to start universal healthcare. Single payer should be a goal, but it's unrealistic to think we can get there in less than 40-50 years, IMO.