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ehrnst

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43. So what is preventing a "legislative failure" to pass a tax plan M4A at the federal level?

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 11:19 AM

Mar 2020

If the representatives in the small, homegenous population of Vermont that had the political will to send him to DC "didn't have the courage" do it, why are we supposed to believe that the representatives of a much more diverse and huge population will be "have the courage" to do so?

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Switzerland rejects single-payer in landslide, keeps its version of Obamacare [View all] Gothmog Mar 2020 OP

ooops. George II Mar 2020 #1

Bernie, aoc, sirota, turner and all those that were fooled...are you listening? Thekaspervote Mar 2020 #2

medicare with an advantage policy is cheaper than the swiss price nt msongs Mar 2020 #3

No it isn't...the deductibles and copays are pretty high...by sis in law owes over a 1200. and she Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #8

Medicare beneficiaries have been paying in for decades, which would Hoyt Mar 2020 #28

We could easily be happy with a plan like that. As long as workers still got the part of their pay brewens Mar 2020 #4

Post removed Post removed Mar 2020 #5

The question doesn't seem honest to me beastie boy Mar 2020 #6

+1 Just_Vote_Dem Mar 2020 #7

Oohhh.. Thanks for that. Cha Mar 2020 #10

K&R betsuni Mar 2020 #9

Medicare is NOT free zak247 Mar 2020 #11

MFA as proposed is similar to Medicare in that it is a single payer, government run system, BUT... thesquanderer Mar 2020 #13

Sanders just uses the Medicare name for its familiarity draw. Celerity Mar 2020 #14

Precisely. His plan is nothing like the existing Medicare system. He's co-opted the name... George II Mar 2020 #16

He has a bad tendency to falsely mislabel, his biggest error was to cling to his self-labelling as a Celerity Mar 2020 #17

I know a low-income senior who is scraping by every month to keep up w her Medicare payments.... Hekate Mar 2020 #37

Odd BidenBacker Mar 2020 #12

The Swiss tend to be wealthy and are generally healthier than we are mvd Mar 2020 #15

Why did sanders plan fail in Vermont? Gothmog Mar 2020 #18

That was a legislative failure mvd Mar 2020 #20

Denial is not just a river in Africa Gothmog Mar 2020 #22

Wrong mvd Mar 2020 #33

sanders utterly and completely failed to get his magical plan adopted in Vermont Gothmog Mar 2020 #35

All this talk as if the Republicans and conservative half Hortensis Mar 2020 #40

So what kept them from passing "the tax plan to fund it?" ehrnst Mar 2020 #24

Societal savings are not tax revenues and cannot be used to pay for a plan in the real world Gothmog Mar 2020 #36

I understand that the instant "uprising of the proletariat" upon Sanders' swearing in ehrnst Mar 2020 #41

Without a magical voter revolution, none of sanders agenda can be adopted Gothmog Mar 2020 #42

Yep... ehrnst Mar 2020 #44

It's not That they lacked courage. It's that they know math. GulfCoast66 Mar 2020 #29

So what is preventing a "legislative failure" to pass a tax plan M4A at the federal level? ehrnst Mar 2020 #43

Bernie gets very testy when asked about what lessons are to be learned from Green Mountain Care ehrnst Mar 2020 #26

"The Swiss tend to be wealthy"? musette_sf Mar 2020 #19

True about the infrastructure but they are more well off overall mvd Mar 2020 #21

Um. musette_sf Mar 2020 #23

+1000. ehrnst Mar 2020 #25

? mvd Mar 2020 #32

Maybe one reason they are wealthy is because they have a common sense Healthcare system? GulfCoast66 Mar 2020 #30

Definitely not the reason mvd Mar 2020 #31

Well. We actually agree. I'm not intrinsically against MFA. GulfCoast66 Mar 2020 #34

Whoomp there it is. oasis Mar 2020 #27

Wow. Go, Swiss. Hekate Mar 2020 #38

Guess they didn't feel the revolution Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 #39