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A comment on Medicare for All – The Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Health Care Plans.

Re:Medicare for All – The Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warre... by pwinnski on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:15PM (#21401419)
The reason candidates feel a need to propose anything related to health care is that the costs are too high. Anybody expecting lower costs without cutting, you know, costs isn't engaging reality.

So yes, any serious proposal to address the cost of health care in America will include cuts to the costs of health care in America, which includes hospitals, doctors, and so on. This seems blindingly obvious.

The linked blog post seems to want the current system to be preserved as-is, with no cuts to anything. Which is a viewpoint, but not a very popular one.

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Re:Medicare for All – The Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warre... by jumbopapa on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:33PM (#21401597)
I think the enlightening thing is that higher costs have been driven by government funded programs. I have to pay taxes for Medicare directly and there is a hidden tax in the form of higher healthcare costs in the private market.
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