Comments by "Regis" (@Timbo5000) on "Nurse Slams Question Asking Bernie How He'd Pay for Free COVID-19 Vaccines | NowThis" video.

Joe Maleski *violent crime happens* > "We're going to need the police over here" > "hOw ArE wE gOiNg To PaY fOr ThAt?"
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@benjibanks7894 Nope, here in the Netherlands we already have developed succesful medicine that seems to neutralise Corona. We're currently starting safety trials for humans. This medicine will enter the market probably a year before the vaccine (which will take approx. 18 months). For the medicine testing will take a few months before it's deemed safe.
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If we'd do that we'd have enough to fund medicare for all and corporate journalists would finally understand this new, strange concept of "taxes".
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@thetecno5800 Lol alright there buddy, keep thinking that. Human civilisation will continue without the US, sorry to burst your bubble
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Joe Maleski Because it will be paid through taxes, that is self-evident. When the government pays for something, it does so with tax money. It's dumb to ask where the money comes from. And I think it's even dumber to imply that saving lives in the event of a virus outbreak is in any questionable. We're facing a virus that if let to its devices can kill hundreds of thousands. Of course it needs to be battled by any means necessary to ensure that the number of deaths doesn't go beyond a few hundred or at the most a few thousand. It's ridiculous to ask this question.
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The best part is that public healthcare is cheaper than private, so you end up spending less in taxes than most pay right now for insurance. Even a selfish cheapskate should like medicare for all.
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@cristosl Last time I checked there needs to be a minimum 95% vaccination rate for the population to be immune to the targeted disease. That makes it even more nonsensical to deny vaccines to the poor.
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@burger_kinghorn It's two universities working together, not big pharma. They're very unlikely to ask exorbitant amounts of money for it. I'm at one of those universities and these are the same guys that copy big pharma medicine for us when they ask unacceptable prices (yeah that's a breach of intellectual property, but it's only done when big pharma asks hundreds of thousands of euros for life-saving medicine without a proper justification). They'd have to be massive hypocrites to charge top dollar for it. Things are luckily different here.
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@ulysses7653 The "plan" is taxes, it really is that simple. I don't get how you can possibly fail to understand this
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@benjamincannell4906 Because it's a dumb question. If the government spends money on something it was paid for by tax money. Everyone knows this. The "how are you going to pay for it" question is asked deliberately to have Bernie say "taxes", so that the corporate media narrative can then be "Bernie wants to raise taxes on the middle class". This question is never asked when the US spends billinos on wall street bailouts or when trillions are spent on another foreign intervention. On the surface it seems like a normal question, but when you analyse it more you see it's part of a vicious narrative. They also ask the question again and again, after Bernie has answered it over a hundred times by now. It's a sneaky tactic to portray Bernie as the big bad man that will tax you blind.
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@avggamer86 You act like the Democratic party deserves your vote. You have to choose between enabling Trump or enabling a Democratic party that has absolute disdain for progressives and democracy itself to the point of rigging primaries to get what they want. The option is evil, lesser evil or blank. I choose blank.
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@xfistsclenchedx He considers the price tag more than anyone else. Public healthcare is cheaper than the current overpriced system. The US pays literally almost twice as much as countries like the UK or France even though America's system is also inferior. Bernie's plan will make healthcare cheaper and better at the same time. He has explained this many times already and he is correct. The US pays 17% of its GDP on healthcare, the UK pays 7.7% for better coverage . If an NHS styled system were to exist in the US, simply redirecting the money that is already being paid to insurers now, will be enough to fund it two times over.
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@user-ls6dm3kv4b *doesn't ask where trillion dollar bailout comes from*
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It's incredibly frustrating, I agree. Mindnumbingly so.
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@benjamincannell4906 Wow.... There's 320 million people in the US. During a pandemic like the regular flu, approximately 20% of the population catches it (64.000.000). 2% of that number is 1.2 million people dead. But hey, "just" 2%. In 1918 influenza killed 600.000 Americans as it spread into a pandemic and had a 1% deathrate.
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@TheTeatimecrumpet Jesus those turnout rates in the US are extremely low....
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Nope that's just business as usual. Corporate media won't question anything that benefits wall street and the establishment
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@benjamincannell4906 Tax cuts mean you're cutting government spending. So you're paying for tax cuts by diminishing certain government policy. For example cutting in defence spending. Tax cuts aren't free either, it means the government loses out on money that it right now is using.
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@dipojones Exactly
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