Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
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Are you supporting health insurance companies over universal healthcare, as Biden has declared in tonight’s debates? If so, why?

I'm actually in favor of British-style National Health. Not MediCare For All, because my Medicare drug coverage copays actually costs me about $6000 per year, while my Blue Cross had a much lower copay cost. The problem is that Medicare drug costs have a weird donut hole and then Catastrophic Care level coverage has the patient paying 5% of the drug retail price. Combine that with drug companies charging any price they like with a monopoly on a new drug for many years, and voila: Drugs seniors can't afford.

BUT, (and this is a very important BUT), Democrats barely got ACA made into law over 10 years ago, and Republicans have been doing everything they can think up to kill it ever since. So I believe that in the real world, ACA was the best we could do then. Even including a public option stopped passage until it was removed. That's just how real politics works. You can't take your opponents in Congress out back and shoot them. People in their states or districts vote them in and they get to vote on bills. Want to change things to be better? Change voter's hearts.

Democrats might vote for National Health, if they get enough voter support. Republicans never will.

Your still not clued up to the Sanders 'Medicare for all' plan he had put out during the campaign? Hadn't read the proposal?

I thought we had this discussion 50 pages back? I even provided a link to it at the time for anyone to read it so's you'd understand it's not the same thing as what you have.

I think you made the same incorrect comparison then as now..

Anyway. Who cares, right? Ain't happening now either way this elections going. Missed the shot and there's only been a few since Roosevelt. We'll continue to talk. People will go broke, die or both under our current Dunkin Donuts managed system.


Last edited by chunkstyle; 10/23/20 11:31 PM.