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Elizabeth Warren Releases Medicare for All Plan
- atlasunshrugged 7y agoNYT piece has much more info https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-medicare-for-all.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/us/politics/elizabeth-war...
- ng12 7y agoWhy does this piece refer to her as Ms. Warren instead of Sen. Warren?
- vonmoltke 7y agoThis is the Times' chosen style. They almost always refer to people as "Mr." or "Ms." when not using their full name, and rarely use titles. For example, this article repeatedly refers to Bill Clinton as "Mr. Clinton" and Donald Trump as "Mr. Trump": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/house-impeachment-partisan-vote.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/house-impeach...
- mrep 7y agoLink to her actual proposal: https://medium.com/@teamwarren/ending-the-stranglehold-of-health-care-costs-on-american-families-bf8286b13086 https://medium.com/@teamwarren/ending-the-stranglehold-of-he...
- crb002 7y ago”Substantially increase funding for the IRS” (according to her own words linked by @mrep)
- akhilcacharya 7y agoProbably a solid investment that will recoup more than the increase in funding!
- iron0013 7y agoThat is a very, very good idea that will pay for itself and then pay for many other things. And the only ones it'll affect negatively are tax cheats. :)
- mindslight 7y agoWhy for all, rather than available to all? It could just be marketing, but the details seem like her plan includes completely eliminating the private "insurance" industry. But with the amount of money floating around at the private insurance companies, plus all their make-work jerbs, I just don't see them being possible to take on like that in one fell swoop. Rather, such a plan is sure to be jiu-jitsued by the insurance companies similar to how we ended up with Romney^h^h^h^h^h^hObamacare. Simply provide a competing option based on allowing anyone to buy in to Medicare. People that have access to good private insurers can stick with them, so they lose nothing. The buy-in price could cover the true cost, while still being competitive with the current options for the self-employed, so no budget problem. Big Insurance will always throw up the standard "but we shouldn't have to compete" sob story (see also: Comcraps vs muni fiber), but would lack any real basis for objection rather than dealing with a mortal threat. I guess this is ultimately just divisive politics. Preaching to a choir that sees coupling increased taxes on the rich as killing two birds with one stone - but dead on arrival to everyone else.
- claytongulick 7y agoWould you like to compete with an entity that doesn't have to make a profit, can lose as much as they want, and is infinitely subsidized?
- fooker 7y agoBy providing better healthcare, sure. Most rich people are usually willing to pay good fraction of their net worth to live 10-20 years longer.
- unmole 7y agoFrom the Guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.