Where are you getting this? I’ve worked more than my fair share of 60-80 hour weeks, but at no point would my employers have been doing that shit if they were required to pay me OT.

See, that’s kind of the point of cutting the work week to 32 hours. 

Yes.

Or being a salaried worker that continues to be paid on base-40.

We’ve spent more time in “just trying to stay alive” mode than we ever have in “feeling pretty good about our finances” mode.  So, for us there isn’t a whole lot to change other than taking all of the available unallocated cash flow and pouring it into our HELOC to get it paid down as quickly as possible.  If the shit…

Unless you plan to retire in the next 10 years, you’re probably screwing yourself. 

Maybe you might want to, you know, actually pay attention.  M4A would cost much less than the current system.  This is not even remotely in question.  But, it’s also clear that you have zero interest in facts and reality, so feel free to continue spouting your bullshit with zero backing.

No, it isn’t “debatable.”  We have literally decades worth of data showing that nations with single payer or similar systems get much better health outcomes while spending nowhere near as much as we do.

Your problem isn’t that unions are getting too much.

It’s actually just a government insurance program.  The actual healthcare part is still entirely privatized.  The only “government-run healthcare” system we have is the VA, which actually has consistently beat the private sector for patient satisfaction every single year since the measurements were first taken.

President Obama didn’t so much compromise as he completely ceded all his ground by promoting a law which was entirely devised by Republicans and then tweaked it a very wee bit for things like preexisting conditions.

I’m putting everything into zinc.

According to a lot of people, that is exactly what they want.  Which means, if they had their way, we’d have nothing but right wing psychopaths running things because those motherfuckers never apologize for anything.

Bingo.

(Red) States’ rights and fiscal responsibility (for the poor).

Maybe you should actually read your sources before posting them in an effort to try and prove your point:

Admin costs for private insurers can run as high as 25%.

Two peer-reviewed studies which looked at drivers of health care cost increases, including admin costs of private insurers, unnecessary tests/treatment/prescriptions due to fee-for-service incentives, expensive complications due to lack of access, demands by patients for unnecessary care, malpractice costs and…

I mean, there were a whole shitload of people who bought the bullshit that Hillary Clinton was selling, so...

The single most expensive contributor to rising healthcare costs in the US are the administrative expense ratios of private insurers.  This is not in question, except for people who want to obfuscate the issue by talking about providers or prescription drug companies or literally anything else.  This is like the…