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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That's not the world we live in anymore and we can't recreate it Path dependency is a thing
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I don't know what point you're trying to make with this, but 1) doctors are still quite well off in places like Canada and the UK, and 2) kicking down all the doctors' doors and saying "Time to give back your stolen profits" is MORE of a fantasy than doing it to the insurers
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The UK also had a transitional system that wasn't the NHS for 37 years.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance_Act_1911 …
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35. why did i say 37?
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NHS was formed after hospital system was destroyed in the blitz. Our version can phase in quickly by eliminating the 1% tax break, make Medicare age 55 and covering birth to 26 years old on day one. The rest can shift to Medicare within 18 months if only Amazon paid 35% tax rate.
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I'm actually fairly skeptical of the power of Big Insurance, relative to the power of just the whole healthcare system fighting to prevent a monopsony squeezing their prices.
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Here I used to see ads against that emergency room billing reform measure that were like "don't let Big Insurance and Congress conspire to hurt your local hospital! Fight all payer rate setting!" I worry that's a very effective message.
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