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Democrat's death wish: Backing grows for 'Medicare for All'
American Thinker ^ | 09/12/2017 | Rick Moran

Posted on 09/12/2017 7:26:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Bernie Sanders' government plan to provide "Medicare for All" is getting increasing support from prominent Democrats and appears headed to become an important part of the party platform in the future.

The idea to put the entire health care industry under government control for all 320 million Americans is not popular. A Pew survey from last June shows only 33% support the idea of single payer. More importantly, a large percentage of Americans strongly oppose the idea. In short, using Sanders' plan as a catalyst for a takeover by Democrats  of the House and Senate would cost more votes than it attracts. This spells doom in swing districts where Democrats must attract a sizable number of Republican votes to be successful.

But that hasn't stopped an ever growing number of liberals from announcing support for Sanders' plan.

Business Insider:

Sanders on Wednesday will roll out a Medicare-for-all bill, which aims to extend the Medicare program, federally funded insurance for people over the age of 65, to all Americans.

A single-payer healthcare push has previously been well outside the mainstream for most Democrats. But Sanders' legislation has picked up support from high-profile Democrats.

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey on Monday became the latest to offer support for Sanders' legislation.

"I'm signing onto Medicare-for-all, which I'm excited to do this week," Booker said in an interview with NJTV. "Sen. Sanders, myself, and some others are going to be announcing some legislation this week along with some of my other colleagues."

Booker, who has been floated as a possible contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, said Obamacare was just a "first step" in securing healthcare for all Americans.


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The basic problem with Sanders' plan is that he wants to add almost 300 million beneficiaries to a program that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) says is "unsustainable." Obamacare reforms of Medicare haven't worked and costs continue to spiral out of control. According to the Heritage Foundation, Medicare has an unfunded liability of $85.6 trillion. And the Democrats want to pile on 300 million beneficiaries on top of that?
1 posted on 09/12/2017 7:26:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He means ALL the people of the world.


2 posted on 09/12/2017 7:29:37 AM PDT by Savage Beast (To the insane, the sane appear insane. MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing democrats come up with is sustainable or workable. They are scrambling to come up with political ideas, of which they have none, regardless of the consequences.
They get more desperate by the moment.


3 posted on 09/12/2017 7:29:43 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is ALREADY Medicare for all. All that is required is that you work, pay in all your working life, and then retire as early as 62-years old. What’s wrong with that? Leave it alone, Bernie and ‘rats.


4 posted on 09/12/2017 7:30:04 AM PDT by oldplayer
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RE: There is ALREADY Medicare for all. All that is required is that you work, pay in all your working life, and then retire as early as 62-years old.

Make that 65 years old. I don’t think you qualify for Medicare yet at 62.


5 posted on 09/12/2017 7:31:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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The law will require enrollment of everyone. Then the taxes and cost sharing will kick in. Before long you’ll be paying $2,000 a month for rationed healthcare never meant to be delivered. All the while growing the size and scope of government.


6 posted on 09/12/2017 7:31:57 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: oldplayer

Bernie and the rats could be the next hot band name.


7 posted on 09/12/2017 7:34:02 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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If MEDICARE is for all, so is paying decades of MEDICARE tax to earn it

And so are the aches pains and infirmities of old age

Welcome to MEDICARE


8 posted on 09/12/2017 7:37:42 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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This is the direct result of Republicans refusal to govern. They should've abolished Obamacare within the first week of Trump's presidency. Instead, they strive to protect the disgusting profiteering of pharmaceutical, insurance, care-giver and hospital entities who profit.

Maybe US citizens across the political spectrum are realizing that DC swampthings have progressed from useless to disgustingly anti-US citizens. Maybe the only way to end the profiteering by political donors is universal health care.

9 posted on 09/12/2017 7:39:38 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Correct

And all retired military at age 65 are shifted into Medicare ( with tricare as backup as available)


10 posted on 09/12/2017 7:39:54 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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Step 2 in providing national healthcare run by the government for all peasants - Except of Course for the Two Houses of Lords and their families and retainers who receive special medical coverage.


11 posted on 09/12/2017 7:44:59 AM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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Problem. Uninsured people don’t want to pay ANYTHING for health insurance. They want to use that money for other things. Health insurance is not a high priority for them.

So if they get it, it better be free.


12 posted on 09/12/2017 7:47:47 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is Bernie Sanders on Medicare and if not why not?

Socialism for thee but not for “me”. - BS


13 posted on 09/12/2017 7:48:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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Democrats: taking from those who have, and giving it to those who vote so that the money keeps flowing to them.


14 posted on 09/12/2017 7:50:11 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Freedom of speech: a fond memory of something that went away 30 years ago.)
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What’s even scarier is how many voting Americans think this is a great idea, especially young people.

Shows how deep the brainwashing goes from the public schools and media, doesn’t it?

How little they know. How little they understand how this would work.

They’re in for a whole world of hurt....


15 posted on 09/12/2017 7:51:09 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am assuming in this single payer scenario that the money people pay to private insurance would be funneled to medicare. My work sponsored family plan is over $500.00/month. I would assume medicare payroll taxes would go up that much. I hope not more than that.


16 posted on 09/12/2017 7:53:26 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Its strength is that it’s easy to understand. Everyone gets a car. Easy to understand. Everyone gets medicare. Easy to understand.


17 posted on 09/12/2017 7:54:52 AM PDT by xzins ( Support the Freepathon! Every donation is impaortant.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Dem Party has been hijacked by Leftist radicals. They are now incapable of moving to the center enough to be competitive in 80% of the country.


18 posted on 09/12/2017 7:55:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Bernie Sanders will be dead of old age within a decade. He’s the sugar daddy pouring out money to adoring fans without actually having to pick up the tab himself.


19 posted on 09/12/2017 7:56:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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Sanders “Medicare for all” would most definitely include rationing and price-controls on literally everything.

It would simply be total nationalization. No doubt about it.

America gets away with its present ridiculous, inefficient, crony-capitalist hairball medical delivery system because Fed.gov can print massive debt, in its own unbacked, fiat currency - and the world has to take it.


20 posted on 09/12/2017 8:01:50 AM PDT by PGR88
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