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Liz did a much better job explaining it (and I'm not sure Bernie has read that or he would adopt it). But he envisions raising everyone's taxes, but

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Mar 4 '20, 09:16

for lower income people it would be less than what the average cost of insurance, co-pays, deductibles would be. He just doesn't want to say that out loud. Liz has employers kicking in what they would otherwise be contributing to health insurance for their employees. That's a pretty sizeable number and makes sense.

I've said this before, but none of this ever gets to the unintended consequences which are just a huge factor. I'm in favor of improving the system and steering it towards something like M4A, but it has to take place over decades, not just a few years. Improve and then adapt. Improve some more and adapt some more, etc. Improving is good.

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I agree. You have to prove that your first something has done the job before you should be able to step out further. - Will Hunting Mar 4, 09:19 1
- And Obamacare is still really popular. The most important thing was that it got past. Then people could experience the improvement and the system - pmb Mar 4, 09:20

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Liz did a much better job explaining it (and I'm not sure Bernie has read that or he would adopt it). But he envisions raising everyone's taxes, but

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