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Bidencare Would Be a Big Deal
Don’t dismiss it because it isn’t Medicare for All.
While Biden is indeed proposing incremental change rather than Medicare for All, we’re talking about some big increments. Independent estimates suggest that under Biden’s plan, 15 million to 20 million Americans would gain health insurance. And premiums would fall sharply, especially for middle-class families.
The Biden plan would increase subsidies and also remove the upper-income limit that prevents many middle-class families from receiving aid. This would cost a fair amount of money: The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget puts the price tag at $850 billion over a decade. But it would cost far less than the 2017 tax cut, much of which went to corporations, which were supposed to respond by increasing investment, but didn’t.
The Biden plan would also automatically enroll low-income Americans in the public option, which is more important than it might sound. One of the defects of our system is that it’s complex and confusing, and those who need help the most are often the least able to navigate their way to getting it. Ideally we’d just move to a simpler system, but for now auto-enrollment would be an important palliative measure.
True, America would still fall somewhat short of achieving what every other advanced country has — universal health care. But we’d get a lot closer, and many who currently have insurance coverage would see their costs fall and the quality of coverage improve.
If Trump wins, Americans will lose preexisting condition protection and many will lose their health insurance or see their premiums soar; if Biden wins, Americans will keep that protection and many will gain insurance or see their premiums fall.
More at www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/opinion/joe-biden-health-care.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Donald Trump Jr. reportedly wanted a family 'intervention' to stop Trump's 'crazy behaviour' at Walter Reed
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-jr-reportedly-wan
ted-a-family-intervention-to-stop-trump-s-crazy-behaviour-at-walter-reed/ar-BB19KC72?ocid=msedgntp
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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Trump and Socialized Medicine
In economics we have the concept of “revealed preference” that simply states that you do not pay attention to what an individual claims to prefer. Rather, you pay attention to what they actually do.
President Trump just elected to go to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment of his CORON-19 symptoms. He could have elected to go to any hospital in the country, but he choose to go to the most purely socialist medical center in the country, one owned by the government and all it’s employees are government employees. Just as the military is the purest example of socialism in the US, Walter Reed is the purest example of socialized medicine in the US.
So Trump’s revealed preference is that he prefers socialized medicine to private medical care.
Who knew that deep down he really is a socialist.
https://angrybearblog.com/2020/10/trump-and-socialized-medicine.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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We have to take action and vote like our lives depend on it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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"Socialism is a scare-word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public (owned electric) power. Socialism is what they called Social Security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people." - Harry S. Truman, 1952
www.snopes.com/fact-check/truman-socialism-scare-word/
Truman did not mention Obamacare or Medicare because those would be distant future scare-words.
How Obamacare became Democrats’ most powerful political weapon
There’s a reason Trump and Pence keep lying about Obamacare, and Biden and Harris keep bringing it up.
www.vox.com/2020/10/8/21507188/trump-pence-obamacare-affordable-care-a
ct-aca-biden-harris-debate
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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‘A Republican Party unraveling’: GOP plunged into crisis as Trump abruptly ends economic relief talks, dismisses virus
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-republican-party-unraveling-
gop-plunged-into-crisis-as-trump-abruptly-ends-economic-relief-talks-dismisses-virus/ar-BB19NWBm?ocid=msedgntp
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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I don't think that ALL Democrats are crazy terrorists that burn down the streets when they don't get their way. In fact, most of them aren't. Just BLM and your Antifa buddies.
I'm assuming this cartoon is about something some crazy dude did. Are you insinuating that everybody who is voting for "the wrong party" is going to shoot up a hair salon because they can't get their hair cut?
I assure you, that's not the case.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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