But company profits go down.
And imagine how well the nonprofit hospitals would be doing since we’d actually be getting paid
But That’s a trillion not going directly into billionaire pockets
Came here to say this - also, saving people that are not billionaires just means more mouths to feed.
It would SAVE Money? For the WORKING Class? That sounds TERRIBLE!
-Republicans making $20000 a Year!
They are just temporarily embarrassed centimillionaires.
“That’s socialism!”
- Person whose life would be drastically improve is Medicare for All
Missed some zeroes I think.
No. It’s accurate. They’re the kind of people who think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, and they’ll be damned if their hard-earned future money goes to the poor when they finally strike it rich.
One of the things imprinted from my young life was sitting in my friend’s house. I was maybe 8 or 9? Anyway, we were waiting for something else to come on like Happy Days or Dukes of Hazzard or something. These were the days of most households having one TV, maybe color if that family splurged and about 2-3 channels, LOL.
His parents were watching some local debate between two local candidates, possibly on PBS? The young guy struck me as a bit of a dumbass and had kind of slimey used car salesman vibes and the older guy seemed to be talking sense. Don’t really remember many details, and hell, I was a kid anyway.
Thing winds up and my friend’s dad is red-faced with anger over it and is growling about how the older guy will “raise my taxes!”.
Did I say we were sitting in my friend’s house? I left out the part that he lived in a trailer. My friend was poor, as was I - both our parents had bought large amounts of land in remote areas and put cheap houses on them. It is not likely at all that we were going to have our taxes raised in any way we’d really notice. I remember asking my parents about this reaction and I remember them laughing at the absurdity…
I believe they’re talking “Republican (electorate)”, not “Republican (elected)”
In other words, fascism is killing 114k people every single year.
It’s actually capitalism why we have fascism.
No, it’s much much higher. In the millions or tens of millions.
Or capitalism. Overlap is like 90% these days.
Yes, but billionaires need superyachts and rocket ships. Won’t someone please think of the billionaires?!
Billionaires need their heads separated from their bodies. Nothing more.
What’s fucked up is they could probably have those, too.
They absolutely could. “Who will pay for it?” is the Orwellian slogan they feed to the plebs. It’s really about control.
Okay, but those savings of $1 trillion could in principle be used (in part) for more superyachts and such for billionaires.
It’s only specifically those billionaires who are heavily invested into the health care industry who might stand to profit from maintaining the status quo.
This point deserves repeating even though it may be common knowledge among those who are well informed on the issue; people in red states hate the cost of healthcare also, but they might not care to listen to Bernie about it. So the more people talking about it the better
This is just too much common sense. A plan, to save money and actually help average Americans. I wonder if life would be positively different if Bernie had won the 2016 Democratic primary.
He has pretty much 0% chance at presidency now and hes the only senator i hear talking about actual progressive ideas instead of isreli talking points.
I can almost guarantee if he won we would be in a much better place (before trump tore the whole thing down again or something)
Oh yah I agree. Shame really. He has been the consistent voice of reason and actually putting forth ideas that would actually help people. Everyone else sans a few progressives are basically all spouting the same bullshit with no real gumption to make positive change.
But DEATH PANELS!..and Freedom!
We have death panels. It’s the insurance companies.
No, those don’t count because something something free enterprise marketplace miracles.
