Repubs to filibuster continuing resolution and debt limit increase bill but they say they want a debt limit increase too

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fskimospy

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No it would not be an improvement. Currently Medicare/Medicaid are low payer when it comes to insurance payment. Also it would impact health industry greatly with millions of people being out of work, investor losing their investment as result of market crash for those companies in health care industry etc. It would basically be a disaster. I would support setting Medicare back to say 60 years instead of now 65 as that not likely to happen major impact but i do not support giving everyone federal insurance.
It’s always funny to me that conservatives argue against universal health care by saying it would be too efficient.
 
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ivwshane

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No it would not be an improvement. Currently Medicare/Medicaid are low payer when it comes to insurance payment. Also it would impact health industry greatly with millions of people being out of work, investor losing their investment as result of market crash for those companies in health care industry etc. It would basically be a disaster. I would support setting Medicare back to say 60 years instead of now 65 as that not likely to happen major impact but i do not support giving everyone federal insurance.

Do you have any idea how ignorant you sound?
First off, wtf is “low payer”?
Second, exactly how would a single payer system impact millions of workers, specifically how would millions lose their job?
I also fail to see how investors would lose their investments.

So just to be clear your real objection to providing single payer health care or any other major health care reform like the rest of the entire industrialized world does is because of the potential to lose profits. Do I have that right? Profits before people, right?



How do you undo decades of brainwashing by the right? I don’t see a way around this. You have people willing to hurt their fellow Americans over dubious grievances and pure ignorance.
 
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fskimospy

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Do you have any idea how ignorant you sound?
First off, wtf is “low payer”?
Second, exactly how would a single payer system impact millions of workers, specifically how would millions lose their job?
I also fail to see how investors would lose their investments.

So just to be clear your real objection to providing single payer health care or any other major health care reform like the rest of the entire industrialized world does is because of the potential to lose profits. Do I have that right? Profits before people, right?



How do you undo decades of brainwashing by the right? I don’t see a way around this. You have people willing to hurt their fellow Americans over dubious grievances and pure ignorance.
The logic is that because Medicare reimburses at a lower level the health care industry will shed jobs and stock prices will decline because of lower profits.

In any other context this is something conservatives would celebrate as efficiency but because that leads them to an uncomfortable conclusion they decide bloated welfare spending is now good.

There’s a similar situation with defense spending. Government spending doesn’t create jobs to them unless it’s government spending on missiles and tanks. Then it’s job fuel!