Tennessee becomes 1st state with plan to turn Medicaid into block grant

[JEDIYoda]

They survive on a fuckton of higher taxes on the lower and middle classes - unlike in the US where the bottom half pays $0 in federal income taxes.

They also pay a Value Added consumption based tax - far higher than our state based sales taxes (of which 5 of our states do not have one).

Oh also, those idealistic countries you love to get a hard-on for? They have drastically low corporate income taxes and FAR higher income taxes on individuals.

Womp wooooooooooooooomp

No clue have you!! So sad!!! You must be a practicing Conservative Compassioner….

 

[Meghan54]

Please provide a single payer healthcare system that is more expensive than what we have

And this was conveniently ignored, as usual. You notice he never answers questions that don't fit his narrative.

 

[darkswordsman17]

A Dem is governor now. And it's doubtful another large scale tax cut will fly there for a long time.

Sorry can't agree with that. They didn't learn their lesson before. That was why they voted Sebellius in as the Rubs had started to fuck things up in the 90s. Then they voted Brownback in 2010 and he put them right back on the same course only even worse, then re-elected him even though the economy was already starting to take a hit. It wasn't until the Rubs really started fucking education after his re-election that people got properly pissed enough to care. And that took the Rubs causing a constitutional crisis by trying to declare the state supreme court invalid to shove their education cuts through. Even the Rubs thought they were unconstitutional and would be overturned (but then the state court ended up siding with them).

I'd love to be proven wrong, but Kansas is almost certainly going to be in a constant state of flux (fucked) due to them being overwhelmingly Republican (they have I think a 2:1 ratio in registered voters).

 

[darkswordsman17]

Good job, Tennessee! Of course I'm sure they will manage to successfully convince all the Tennesseans screwed over shitty health coverage in the next 5 years that it was all the democrats fault and of course Obama.

lol, this will be disaster.

They'll use it to go "see, medicare is garbage!" to sell them on gutting Medicare.

 

[Meghan54]

Sounds great. Let's do a single payer experiment in NY or CA.

Let me know how much you love the taxes.

Why do you always start spouting the "OH NOZ!!! Higher taxes!!" mantra when single payer solutions to health care are discussed, yet you seemingly ignore the other side of the money equation....which is all that money that employers pay for health ins. for their employees and all that money employees pay in ins. premiums. Where does all that $$ go when a single payer system is instituted? Vanish into thin air?

I could very easily see for most working stiffs there would be a net increase in take home pay if a true single payer system was ever instituted in this country, despite higher taxes.