City Council backs Albany bill to create ‘Medicare for all’

NY Post ^ | December 6, 2018 | Yoav Gonen and Bruce Golding

[EinNYC]

The City Council on Thursday put its political clout behind a proposal in Albany to overhaul state health care by creating a “Medicare for all” program that would raise taxes by $139 billion a year.

The single-payer plan would extend coverage to the roughly 1 million uninsured New Yorkers — including undocumented immigrants — and eliminate all co-pays and deductibles.

[EinNYC]

I am still foaming at the mouth after reading this. I am so freakin' enraged, that some Manhattan libtard wants to raise MY taxes to pay for the health care of every unproductive bum in NY, INCLUDING illegal criminal invaders. What the HECK -- they proposing to raise my taxes to give free health care to the dirty, disease-carrying illiterate animals that sneak into our country? And the whole city council collection of Occasional Cortex clones voted for this. THIS is why I am trying to leave NY. I am sick of being victimized just because I live here. I am NOT a darn ATM machine to be milked at will to redistribute my hard-earned money to bums and criminals. I suspect there will be a considerable white flight. In fact, I believe there has already been a considerable exit of the middle class out of money-grubbing NY. All that will be left will be welfare bums, illegal criminal invaders and the very wealthy who won't feel a dent in their lifestyle due to ever-increasing taxes to cater to the bums.

[B.O. Plenty]

NYC to look like downtown Caracas? People digging in the trash for their next meal? Think it can’t happen? I bet there a lot of ordinary Caracas-ians thought it couldn’t happen either. Hugo made it happen by promising *free stuff*....

[fruser1]

I’ll have to consider traveling to NY for free surgery. All I have to do is not have ID.

[oh8eleven]

a “Medicare for all” program that would raise taxes by $139 billion a year.
That's just for the first year. Within no time costs will double, triple, quadruple ... and taxes will go up, up, up and people will move, move, move and ...
Ain't socialism great?!?

[Mouton]

At the front of that exodus with be a host of health professionals who are not going to subsidize this nightmare by being tasked with comparatively lower payment schedules. When one arrives at some ER in the near future, one will be greeted with some guy with a medallion and a mace. Upon entry they will be given an herbal tea and a prayer beads set.

[Leaning Right]

> All that will be left will be welfare bums, illegal criminal invaders and the very wealthy ... <

All of whom will vote Democrat. Which is the idea in the first place.

[rktman]

Where’s the comment from occasional cortex? “Just pay for it.”

[rktman]

Keep repeating “No comprende.”

[PGR88]

NY State used to be a balanced place - NY City was a free-market center of trading and finance, while upstate lead in manufacturing and technology of all types. Wealth and power were evenly distributed.

This went away many decades ago. NY is the center of world trading in America’s massive pile of debt and our printed, fiat currency. Like all statist, progressive systems, wealth flows to an increasingly select few. As such, NY City runs the state. Upstate is poor and declining. Its like the former Eastern Europe.

It can’t last. The next financial and debt crisis is going to hit places like NY and IL very hard.

[Rurudyne]

So to give free stuff to 1 million New Yorkers will cost 139 billion dollars?

s Golly! That JUST a $139K per person! What a frugal and wise use of other people’s money! /s

[texas booster]

...to the roughly 1 million uninsured New Yorkers — including undocumented immigrants...

There may be more than 1M uninsured in NYC alone - especially among the undocumented. How will they count them if they have no documentation?

So we again create multiple classes of freeloaders. Anyone with assets gets nothing, while those that can hide assets will get everything for free.

[ZOOKER]

I tend to oversimplify sometimes.

The headline seems to imply that Albany want to take $139B from taxpayers and give it to 1M uninsured illegals.

Did I get that right?

For $139K a year, I'll burn my birth certificate

[bgill]

Next, they’ll require you to bring a dozen or so under your roof.

[fruser1]

You can save even more by ensuring your kids take Spanish in high school; taking a summer long graduation vacation in Mexico to perfect accent and tan; toss license and return illegally for free college. Harvard might even take them.

[CptnObvious]

would raise taxes by $139 billion a year.

I sure rational New Yorkers are excited by this BOONDOGGLE.

[Snickering Hound]

[VanDeKoik]

Paying for it is simple!!



We just take all of our piles of leprechaun gold from that side of the room, and we put it on THAT side of the room!

[SkyDancer]

Meanwhile I’ll bet they have a Cadillac golden healthcare system.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

New York’s FY 2016 annual budget was $101.2 billion.

This marxist stinker will cost $139 billion per year. I need to invest in a Yellow Vest manufacturer ...

[Flick Lives]

“Medicare for all” program that would raise taxes by $139 billion a year.

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$139 billion / 19.8 million = $7,020

Raise taxes by $7,000 for every man woman and child in New York. No problem.