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zak247

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11. Medicare is NOT free

Fri Mar 13, 2020, 10:43 PM

Mar 2020

People don’t realize Medicare IS NOT FREE. First off, one pays about 144 a month for WHAT THEY CALL PART B

Then if you don't want to go bankrupt(since medicare doesn't pay everything) if you really get sick you have to buy a supplemental policy called Medigap. Which doesn’t have dental or prescription drugs, if you want that you have to pay more.

So you're talking 200 to 300 hundred a month.

So, does Bernie calculate that fee in his program? I doubt it. Just making Medicare really free would be a great advancement. And would alone cost trillions, let alone adding all the whole country.

We can build on what we have and follow the Swiss.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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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