He means ALL the people of the world.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Is Bernie Sanders on Medicare and if not why not?
Socialism for thee but not for “me”. - BS
Democrats: taking from those who have, and giving it to those who vote so that the money keeps flowing to them.
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.
Its strength is that it’s easy to understand. Everyone gets a car. Easy to understand. Everyone gets medicare. Easy to understand.
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.
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.
Let it be known that another real brainiac sitting in the Senate---NY's own Kirstin Gillibrand, imbecile extraordinaire, has plans on co-sponsoring Sanders's bill, according to the New York Daily News. It is expected to go to the floor on Wednesday.
The problem isn’t Medicare for all, the problem is Medicare.
Medicare pays doctors 50% on the dollar. The medical system would collapse under 100% Medicare.
Oh hell, just get on with it. Or maybe NK can nuke us and destroy some democrat strongholds....
This is worse than UBI, which would replace welfare.
Single payer would add another open-ended entitlement at a time when we’re unable to fully fund existing social welfare programs.
Where would we find the money to fund an American version of Canada’s Medicare?
And if you love the mess made with Obamacare, wait til to see what’s on offer with Medicare.
In short, this is going to bankrupt the country and if it doesn’t - it can cover everything only by denying most Americans everything but health care politicians decide they can have.
This is beyond stupid.
Yup the tax burden alone will crush the economy not to mention all the red tape.
In contrast, a universal basic program gives every one a basic sum of money as income to save, spend or invest and it flows right back into the economy without new taxes or mountains of red tape.
Democrats are looking back to the past not to the future. If given a choice between bureaucrats running our health care or people being allowed to decide to what to do with new guaranteed income, the choice is clear.
To all except the Democrats. I love the direction in which they’re heading. I want them to tell the American people just how much “free” health care actually costs.
I don’t have sympathy for a GOP in hock to corporate donors which can’t bring itself to repeal Obamacare and replace welfare but we really need to stop digging by creating a new entitlement program that will be impossible to get rid of.