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Acting like social security or Medicare funding levels are fact of nature rather than a political football is parroting right wing talking points. The social se
by joe_the_user 4y ago
Acting like social security or Medicare funding levels are fact of nature rather than a political football is parroting right wing talking points. The social security trust fund has been raided by congress multiple times and if it or the Medicare gets low, they can put that money back.
More broadly, by having a single payer, a reasonable Medicare For All program would in total save Americans vast amounts of money though of course as a program it would have a cost.
- fennecfoxen 4y agoPoliticans hiding the cost of things is the fact of nature. No proposal for Medicare for All that has ever been floated has ever seen a realistic price tag attached. The trust fund's depletion is no fact of nature, it is merely an occasion when this will become a little clearer to the public. When this happens, voters will not like what they are being offered quite as much as they do now, when the costs are some distant abstraction; there will be a whole lot more hesitation and skepticism. And if pointing this out is a "right wing talking point" then go ahead and call me Margaret Thatcher.