Bernie Sanders is a Jewish man who has family that died in concentration camps. Stating that he’s just another white man like Biden or Trump erases his identity and lineage.

“Both of these people are old so all of their ideas are bad.”

“He said, ‘Why the heck should I wait to draw contrast between the two of us? That is what a primary is all about.’”

Congratulations, I strained my shoulder making the jerkoff motion at your comment.

Ok, now I know for a fact that you’re not actually interested in discussing this in good faith. Have you ever been poor? Probably not. I have. When you’re poor, you don’t have the ability to make certain healthcare decisions, because those decisions are being made for you. Sick? Tough shit, you can’t afford to see a…

You can actually thank Trump’s idol Nixon for much of this. Healthcare actually worked much better until Nixon signed the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973.

“The original idea of deductibles and co-pays theoretically might have made sense — if patients have more responsibility for how they spend medical dollars, they would be more careful,” McAneny said.

What also makes this non-viable in the real world is the opaque pricing for medical costs.

Off topic: I volunteered at a RAM event like the one depicted in the picture above. It was in Kentucky. If you want to see what genocide* looks like, then go to one of those events. It’s the lumpenproletariat. I couldn’t believe the lines. I worked the check in for the pediatric services. There were kids who hadn’t…

Absolutely. I have a $3,000 deductible and am not going anywhere near a Dr’s office unless I think I’m dying because a simple ten minute office visit alone will run me over $200.

NHS introduced market forces with Thatcher, and it became astoundingly worse. It turns out that centralized planning is much better at controlling costs than market forces in inelastic markets.

This is logical. Out of pocket for a simple doctor’s visit can easily be a few hundred dollars. For some people that may as well be a few million - they just don’t have the money.

yup, because we all have such cheap healthcare now. Thanks, market!

Fun fact:  research has demonstrated that the more out-of-pocket expenses you impose on insured people, the more they act like UNINSURED people.  They just keep putting off their healthcare needs until they become really expensive and difficult to deal with.  The whole fucking concept of “skin in the game” is a scam.

Listening to the public discourse in this country over the last 2 and a half years, you’d never know that there was a “black working class.”

“We should let people die in the streets due to poverty because some people paid A LOT of money for their education.”

“Alright, let’s make education free as well.”

“WHEN WILL IT END!?!?”

You could just ask physicians in other countries if they are happy. Shocker. They are! My aunt and uncle are both physicians in Sweden and I work in healthcare in the US. The doctors I work with here are more stressed out, have less vacation time and less time to spend with their families. They are forced to partner…

This is more than that person deserved but thank you for writing this, very good, distillation of why healthcare should be treated differently. To your first two paragraphs, I think that the monopolistic nature of healthcare (like telecom and energy too) also greatly contributes to both the high costs and the lack of…

I’m going to try to give you a somewhat more thought-out response than your slippery slope argument really deserves. You’re starting from the same flawed “centrist” position that the GOP likes: that capitalism is always good and that “free market solutions” will always produce the best (or at least most efficient)…