Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "What Makes Bernie Sanders Supporters Tick?" video.

Alright, now how many of these supporters are going to med school to become doctors to help give affordable healthcare to people?
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We lack doctors. We just can't add millions of people to the healthcare market and expect prices not to go up. If Bernie supporters really want affordable healthcare for more people they will study to work in the medical field themselves. This is why people call them lazy.
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It is one reason why healthcare is costly. But the main point is that how are you going to increase supply when you add millions of people to the healthcare market? And yet people feel it will actually save money? There is another reason why healthcare is so costly. I can get into detail why, but I will ask you two questions to ponder it 1. Why do so many employers pay with healthcare insurance as opposed to higher wages? 2. Why is healthcare insurance now the same as healthcare? "And maybe it'd be easier for people to become a doctor when free public college is opened up to so many people." The plan is to pay for 4 years colleges, not med schools. Also, here is why your logic is flawed 1. Being a doctor is a lot of work and stress, are people willing to do it? 2. Why work that hard to become a doctor when you are guaranteed a living wage, healthcare, vacation time, paternity leave, and retirement with a low skilled job?
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"That's thinking with old school economics, if you look at countries that have government provided health insurance, people save money and health is generally better." As is the US has arguably the best healthcare system in the world as is. Other countries have problems as well such as rationing and lack of resources. They just make people wait. Also it is very hard, to almost impossible to compare countries to one another. The variables are too great. Those countries you are comparing us to typically have much smaller populations than the US. That plays a role. compare it like this, say you were to buy Subway sandwiches for 5 people. You can specialize all of them. Now say you were to do it for 200 people. You will just get a bunch of generic sandwiches and tell them to put their own mayo on. Same applies in a country like the US compare to Denmark. The US has 320+ million people, Denmark has a population smaller than most of our states. That is not a valid comparison. And population is just one of many variables. "And yes I know that free public college wouldn't pay for med school, but it would set people on the right track to head there." There are affordable 2 year and 4 year colleges that people can take their pre-med courses at. Money isn't the issue. It is the inability to do the job, or lack of desire to put in the work and take on the stress. "Also, many people actually want to become doctors but can't do it because the education required is too expensive" Or more likely can't handle it or refuse to put in the work needed. I, as a TA, see several pre-med students fail yearly. They are able to afford college and can't pass.
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"How is that enslaving doctors? That is rhetoric not argument, a single payer system is just the government providing healthcare to citizens," The government has nothing to begin with. In order for it to have something it has to take from the citizens. The government does not have healthcare. Doctor provide it and if doctors won't then the government will force them too. " And even with that argument you're basically saying teachers and every other government worker are slaves." In some ways they are. Teachers are asked to take on more students when we lack substitutes. For example if a 2nd grade class does not get a sub those students are spread to the other 2nd grade teachers. A teacher will be responsible for 5 or 6 extra students that day. "What is better, letting people who are poor just die because they can't afford health insurance and let people who are more economically stable get treated? Yes, there are problems with letting a lot more people into the healthcare market due to waiting lines, although they are not unsolvable problems. Your argument about a poor person with a life threatening illness and a person with a knee injury is heartless and shortsighted. Without health insurance, that person would be reluctant to go to the hospital and would probably die." People who typically have the most health problems are those in poverty mainly due to poor decisions. Catering to the least productive in our society is not a solution. While I support trying to help everyone it isn't possible, especially when everyone is not willing to pull their own weight. "Also, a single payer healthcare system payed for by a payroll tax (Probably about 3%) with no cap would save people on average about $5000 a year since they no longer have to pay for private insurance" That is not true.
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