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    • Thought Sanders did a really good job here. After watching this I'm starting to think the "he's a commie" attacks against him the GOP seems to favor wouldyuekit
    • ultimately backfire. Comes down to a very pragmatic choice about the cost of health care and other things.yuekit
    • "pragmatic choice about cost" and what is that?
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    • Would the pragmatic cost being to freeze current expenditures as percentage of GDP (higher than his go to countries) and opening funds to all but rationing as
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    • need be. ignoring moral aspects of choosing who decides rationing... or is it more of gov officials (who probably have no experience of idea) dictate medical
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    • caretakers wages. hell if you guarantee a 2X 15 minimum wage for surgeons maybe you could control costs, but probably wont have many good ones to choose from
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    • its funny its always about the costs. thats common sense id think. and thats the last thing people talk about or get into.
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    • It's always excuses from the other side. Nothing to offer, just complaining "but, but, we can't afford it!" and yet spending keeps going up and up...formed
    • It'll come down to "do you want SS/MC/MD cut, education cut, taxes cut, but still balloon the debt" or do you want "healthcare, safe retirement, better ed,formed
    • and have the same taxes"?formed
    • The most important person is not Bernie, but who his Vice is. If he wins he will be almost 90 if he serves 2 terms...robotron3k
    • He'll almost certainly outlive Trump.allthethings
    • I'm watching guys, but he still deflects all questions.robotron3k
    • He is too old to be president. I agree on that.monospaced
    • Maybe he should dye his hair and get a fake tan like Trump.yuekit
    • again denial of the cost. and even greater denial of gov policy that keeps driving spending and cost higher. face palm... no excuses just plain undeniable reaso
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    • medicare is what somewhere between what 14-17% GDP. above other nations hovering around 10%. medicare covers 44 million people in a nation of around 350 millio
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    • for the bandwagon sloganteers that want medicare for all (at our higher spending than other nations) im ok with. open the existing funding that was set for 44
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    • mil to 350 mil and see what happens
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    • a great lesson in reality of cost and expenditures. and maybe make people start to question well wait how do other countries do it. is it real
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    • is there cost lower because of regulation, or is all R&D done in the US, copyright or even price and wage controls on hospitals... or is the care so basic and
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    • most people think of it as a tax they don;t use and carry a secondary plan. that the 10% GDP really now only fulfills liek 20 million people needs with out
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    • months of waiting. or hell repeat th shit some dumbshit politician says and promises you will never have to think about until you do.
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    • the problem is always the ignorant majority that slowly decays democracies and even republics
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    • what no one is touching the math? no one wants to burden themselves with the actual costs?
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    • are you capable of saying anything in fewer than 12 posts?monospaced

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