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Ocasio-Cortez calls question about how to pay for Medicare for all ‘puzzling’
FOX ^ | Nov. 6, 2018 | Brooke Singman

Posted on 11/06/2018 9:02:25 AM PST by bgill

New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a quick answer when asked how Americans would pay for the 'Medicare for all' plan she and other socialist-leaning Democrats favor: "Just pay for it." In an interview with Jorge Ramos last week, Ocasio-Cortez was asked how she would pay for the multi-billion dollar health care plan promoted by liberal lawmakers like Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif. Ramos noted critics say the the program would be "more expensive" than the current system, to which she answered that people would "just pay for it." “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,” she said. “We’re paying more now.” According to recent studies, the program, first introduced by Sanders over the summer, would increase government health spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; healthcare; joecrowley; newyork; obamacare; ocasiocortez; vermont
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To: MGunny

What an absolute nitwit.


41 posted on 11/06/2018 10:08:31 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: taxcontrol

The answer is “the rich”, of course.


42 posted on 11/06/2018 10:10:13 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the DemocRats are all cats.)
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To: shelterguy

Who pays for the ink and toner for the xerox machine that prints all the free money?


43 posted on 11/06/2018 10:15:45 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

There is no doubt that it starts as medicare for all. And in a couple of years they begin means testing it. And that means any decent legal citizen with a job doesn’t get it, but illegals, crackheads, single welfare mons, basement dwelling millenals etc get it and we pay for it for them. That is their answer.


44 posted on 11/06/2018 10:15:53 AM PST by kjam22
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences must be so proud of her.


45 posted on 11/06/2018 10:18:13 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

Policies is hard.


46 posted on 11/06/2018 10:19:12 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: t4texas
She probably also thinks that as long as there are checks in her checkbook there is money in the bank.

It's troooooooo.

It may not be her money, but if she's in gummint, who cares? The FED will print up more for her and her ilk.

47 posted on 11/06/2018 10:19:35 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke all mooselimb terrorists, today.)
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To: bgill
"If doctors even cared they would work for minimum wage, like the rest of us!" :)
48 posted on 11/06/2018 10:20:26 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: 4Liberty

My town’s only grocery store in the middle of Texas on a normal Tuesday.


49 posted on 11/06/2018 10:24:08 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

Does this IDIOT never read? Medicare is supposed to be BROKE in a few years. Unless they can stop the $65 BILLION FRAUD YEARLY. VA and Military Tricare Prime/Life are all riddled with Fraud.


50 posted on 11/06/2018 11:11:31 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: bgill

Sure, with what, your Visa card?


51 posted on 11/06/2018 11:12:04 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: gaijin
😂
52 posted on 11/06/2018 11:57:07 AM PST by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: bgill

Occasional Kotex, Mad Max and Nasty Pelosi. True representatives of the Democrap party.


53 posted on 11/06/2018 12:05:43 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: bgill

Revvin’ up her imagination
Listen to her howlin’ roar
Socialist under tension
Beggin’ you to tax and spend

Highway to the Crazyzone
Right up to the Crazyzone

Headin’ into Congress
Spendin’ for new benefits, alright
She got them jumpin’ out their seats
And beggin’ for handouts

Highway to the Crazy Zone
Ride into the Crazy Zone

You’ll never know what socialism will do
Until you take it as far as you can go
You’ll never know till it’s too late
Just ask Venezuelans if it’s so!


54 posted on 11/06/2018 12:47:13 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: bgill

" You just pay for it with money...like, you know...money...tee hee hee."

55 posted on 11/06/2018 12:54:14 PM PST by jetson
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To: Moonman62

She only has to be smarter than the people who vote in her district.

That must be a really low hurdle, because this gal is dumber than a bag of hammers.


56 posted on 11/06/2018 1:35:31 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (..Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you.. Joshua 1:9)
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