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Ocasio-Cortez on ‘puzzling’ question of how to fund Medicare for All: ‘You just pay for it’
The Blaze ^ | 11/05/18 | Aaron Colen

Posted on 11/06/2018 2:24:16 AM PST by Libloather

**SNIP**

Ocasio-Cortez was asked last week whether she thought Medicare for All was too expensive. Here’s what she said:

“No, people often say, like, how are you going to pay for it and I find the question so puzzling because ‘How do you pay for something that’s more affordable? How do you pay for cheaper rent?’ You just pay for it. We’re paying more now.”

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; UFO's
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; beer; berniesanders; cortez; election2018; election2020; joecrowley; medicare; newyork; ocasiocortez; occasionalcortex; socialist; vermont
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To: Tax-chick

Brazil just elected a President who is much like Trump.

Their last President ran on “free medical for all”.

Brazil has over 100 million people.

We have over 330 million.

Brazil is economically upside down with paying for free medical for everyone-—AND for giving the poorest a monthly stipend.

IF you keep feeding the feral cats——
you get MORE feral cats.


61 posted on 11/06/2018 5:35:29 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Libloather

Does she have two working brain cells?


62 posted on 11/06/2018 5:45:38 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: Libloather

They mean Medicaid. Medicare costs money. They want the free option.


63 posted on 11/06/2018 5:46:56 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: ridesthemiles

Brazil is a basket case, and so institutionally chaotic that it’s unlikely the new President will have any impact to speak of.


64 posted on 11/06/2018 5:52:44 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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To: Libloather

She does well representing the basement dwelling losers with low IQ’s.


65 posted on 11/06/2018 5:54:37 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Libloather

Elizabeth Warren gave an equally idiotic answer to more or less the same question. She said that we could fund universal Medicare and free higher education by “making the rich pay their fair share in taxes.” Those who sat down and did the numbers have determined that her proposal would work, as long as you redefined “rich” as anyone making over 40K, and “fair share in taxes” as nearly 100% on all income above that amount.


66 posted on 11/06/2018 6:17:39 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Tax-chick

“She genuinely believes that “free” medical care will have a lower aggregate cost than the current arrangements.”

There may be a degree of truth here. By the time the one size fits all single payer system authorizes any expensive procedure, a good percentage of the patients will have expired and the cost to the system is $0.


67 posted on 11/06/2018 6:35:01 AM PST by Western Phil
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To: bk1000

...provably didn’t vote at all


68 posted on 11/06/2018 6:38:58 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: healy61
We all know where money really comes from.

It comes from Obama’s stash.

But Obama’s stash comes from your wallet so we are good

69 posted on 11/06/2018 6:40:56 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: Truth29

Been looking for a new tag line. Thanks! :)


70 posted on 11/06/2018 7:32:13 AM PST by upchuck (Congress is an assisted living facility for the mentally impaired... h/t Truth29)
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To: Paladin2

He’s another one, right?

The economics understanding of horseflies feasting on dog crap.


71 posted on 11/06/2018 7:50:10 AM PST by samtheman (Hold the House, expand in the Senate)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Unfortunately you are right.


72 posted on 11/06/2018 7:50:34 AM PST by samtheman (Hold the House, expand in the Senate)
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To: Libloather

I’m glad the Dems have made an unapologetic socialist who is also an unapologetic moron into their new “face of the party”.


73 posted on 11/06/2018 8:22:22 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Western Phil

That’s a point. It is not difficult to limit costs simply by not providing the service.


74 posted on 11/06/2018 8:53:41 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
I firmly believe that anyone who graduates from any college or university with a business degree knows as much about business as a duck knows about quantum physics.
75 posted on 11/06/2018 10:36:01 AM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: W.

She’s too stupid to be an idiot.


76 posted on 11/06/2018 10:37:15 AM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: RoosterRedux

When I used to drink I’d love to go out on a frosty cold morning, pop open a beer and take a big gulp. It was bracing to say the least. I heartily suggest it sometime.


77 posted on 11/06/2018 10:38:55 AM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Brooklyn’s got beer goggles if they elect this cipher.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3703364/posts


78 posted on 11/06/2018 11:43:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Libloather

79 posted on 11/06/2018 2:25:02 PM PST by Viking2002 ("For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 7:8)
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