The question of "How will you pay for it" re: universal healthcare (or any social program) has two meanings: 1) Where do the resources in the economy exist to do it, and 2) How will you legally and politically create a system to make it happen They are very different questions
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This isn't a half measure being proposed because Americans are uniquely recalcitrant capitalists, this is literally what happened in several European countries, whose universal coverage evolved from or in some cases still is a "mixed" system
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But now we're being told this is unacceptable and the only way we will ever see universal coverage is if an iron-fisted President marches into the corporate offices of Blue Cross Blue Shield shouting "Your business is over! To the guillotine with you!" Sorry if I'm skeptical
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Look, I hate the big private insurers too, but they exist now and they're very powerful The NHS in the UK was formed at a time when "health insurance" was only purchased by the rich, most doctor's visits were paid in cash and the NHS was the first insurance most people ever had
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That's not the world we live in anymore and we can't recreate it Path dependency is a thing
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End of conversation
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In my experience, the people asking "How will you pay for it?" are the same people who blindly support out-of-control military budgets and don't give a rat's red ass about how we can pay for those. They make me sick, honestly.
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Exactly!!! And it's the one that people will almost universally support. Why is this so hard?
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I'm going to disagree. Putting the private insurers on a long slide to irrelevancy may be easier to sell to pundits, the electorate, & politicians; but it's leaving some very rich people wounded, getting poorer year by year, able to lash out. Maybe buy them out up front.
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