Comments by "Don Taylor" (@dontaylor7315) on "What Do Americans Think of ‘Socialized’ Medicine? | NowThis" video.

"If everybody has something for free, who's gonna pay for it?" the guy asks. We're paying a healthcare tax NOW, in premiums and copays, directly to the corporate ruling class not the government. What we'd pay to the government instead would be less because we'd be paying for CARE ONLY without also providing a profit to whichever company we're paying now. "I don't want the government picking what I can and cannot do" the lady says. We're told by private insurers what doctors/clinics/hospitals we can and can't use NOW. Medicare DOESN'T tell anyone what providers to use. With M4A it's the same.
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@allanfoster6965 and those 30-40K are a testimonial to the success of the healthcare industry's motto: "Your money or your life."
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@PersianMichael getting out the millennial and gen Z vote is vital and urgent. A lot of us boomers are on board but not enough. There's got to be a down-ticket sweep for progressives this time not just for president, or else no president no matter how progressive can get meaningful reforms enacted. The centri$ts in Congress can't be weaned from their fealty to the corporate ruling class.
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söder bröder "The govt's job is to provide the citizens with services and make life better." Lucky Sweden! In America, government's job is to serve and enrich the corporate ruling class.
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@AL-bv7jt that's the difference between living in civilization (Canada) or across the border from civilization (US). But there are patriots here who want our country to join civilization and we're working on it.
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@lionitist don't like veterans' hospitals? Don't use them. With M4A the benefits are the same whatever providers you choose. I like my hospital but if I didn't I'd be stuck with it anyway because it's in-network for my insurance. With M4A I won't worry about that.
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@null8295 "that's democracy" when people don't vote. The rest of the first-world countries have active democracies with the people participating. We have democracy in name only with the people mostly at home gaming or streaming some cable series while the least informed and least thoughtful go to the polls and obediently vote for whatever the ruling class says is good for them.
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@Yanaschaf I agree.
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@mindremote that's a profound point.
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@AL-bv7jt I'd hate it if Canada got caught in the same trap we're trying to get out of! Fight it! Vote against it! Don't let it happen to you!
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@mossbergshockwave9629 government corruption is the reason for USPS's problem. It's always been solvent and turned a profit (it doesn't get taxpayer money) but the politicians want to turn it over to their private-sector donors so they started requiring USPS to guarantee its retirement fund way more years further out than any other agency. That way they can pretend it's failing and keep pushing for privatization.
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@Steven Prime "Medical care is a service and a good provided by a third party." Translation: Your money or your life. In civilization healthcare is about health. In America healthcare is about profit. In civilization the function of taxes is the common good. In America the function of taxes is to maintain and increase the power, privilege and wealth of the ruling class. "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations." Thomas Jefferson
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@AL-bv7jt Jesus are the Sakatchewanians and Albertans suicidal or what!? It sounds depressingly like the US. I hope the sane ones among you prevail.
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@YorickReturns how in the world did you get the idea healthcare is "government-controlled" when government itself is corporate-owned, with lobbyists and corporatist think tanks dictating bills to lawmakers and in some cases literally writing the bills and instructing a Congressperson to sign them? I can see it now - ruthless federal oversight forcing the poor powerless insurance companies to gouge fabulous profits out of the sick and dying. Of course that's it, the mean old government regulators making innocent insurers get obscenely rich against their will. Why didn't I see it before?
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@objectivemillennial2117 they're not conservatives they're reactionaries or neocons. Most people alive today have seldom or never met an actual conservative. Reagan-era Gops ran true conservatives out of the party. Eisenhower was the last conservative president.
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@kennethobando78 that may apply to the well-off elderly but a lot of the rest of us are struggling to meet healthcare copays even with Medicare/Medicaid. And believe it or not most old folks aren't itching to throw their kids/grandkids under the bus. So I hope you weren't generalizing from a couple of old MAGAbroads to a whole generation.
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Grumpy Oldfart you nailed it, both on healthcare and on education.
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"You like to pay taxes?"' the guy asks. Does he like paying taxes to the health industry? When we pay taxes directly to the corporate owners of government we pay enough to cover their marketing and profits. When we pay taxes to our country those items aren't in the equation so it's a tax cut. You like tax cuts?
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@Fro7enDesigns "States should provide healthcare..." Some would, some wouldn't. I live in Texas which definitely would not. Texas government is an exaggerated caricature of the Washington right wing. Texas lawmakers religiously bend over for corporations on every issue so it's incumbent on them to make sure we're kept prisoners of the insurance companies.
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@Fro7enDesigns there's money in Texas but since there's no income tax revenues are raised through regressive measures like sales taxes. The social safety net is minimal. When Obamacare was enacted the state opted out of Medicare/Medicaid expansion, refusing the additional federal funds. I have hopes the state might go friom red to purple in 2020 but I'm not overoptimistic about that. Change may come but I don't think it'll be fast.
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@AL-bv7jt PS AlberSaskalexit must never occur!
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@AL-bv7jt thanks and good luck to y'all!
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@YorickReturns "who has the gun?" Ask a candidate running for election or re-election. The ruling class pays the cost of running (unless you're Bernie or Tulsi and won't take money from Corpo Rat). You'll take the money and do as you're told, the same as if you were literally at gunpoint. "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations." Thomas Jefferson Jefferson saw it coming but America didn't heed the warning.
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@YorickReturns flawless reasoning there: Jefferson owned slaves, therefore corporate ownership of government is better than democracy. Sorry, as an outsider I don't get whatever wordplay you're doing with the rather obscure remark about trans people and guns. I gather it's related to jargon/slang within the movement?
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