Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Bernie Sanders Interview on Inequality in America" video.

  1. "medicaid for all would cost around 60 to 70 billion " Uh, the healthcare industry is between 3 to 4 trillion dollars. We can cut defense down to zero and not come close to paying it.
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  2. I heard of Europe. Most countries there have no min. wage, lower corporate taxes and actually tap into their fossil fuels. All of those things Bernie opposes.
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  3. Darren, universal healthcare has many shortcomings. But even at that you cannot establish universal healthcare in the US without causing a major recession in the US. The housing industry is around 5% of our GDP, healthcare is 1/6 of it. Bernie implementing universal healthcare will cause a recession that would be far worse than the Great Recession. Gun laws vary by country. They do not have a better standard of living. It is on par with the US. Saying "better standard of living" is very vague.
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  4. Darren, the reality is the economies of those nations vary. Saying Bernie wants to copy them is vague. Copy what? Denmark with mandatory military? Norway with more oil production? Germany where they track their students and limit who can attend college based purely on how they were in middle school? What exactly does Bernie want to copy? And keep in mind we are a nation of 320+ million people.
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  5. Ramon, France, Denmark and Finland have lower corporate taxes and no min. wage. Also, they are not doing better than us in education and healthcare. Objective measures show that. Not saying they are worse, just saying they are not better.
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  6. Bernie is a communist. As for fighting, standing on stage bitching about rich people and owning three homes is not fighting. Bernie has never produced anything of value in his life. Fighting would be running a fundraiser or leading a team of researchers to develop new technology and drugs. Unless you call using government force to tax people as running a fundraiser Bernie has never done any of that.
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  7. Bernie sold his book in Walmart and made a million off of it. He could be donating that money, or he could have put his book online for free. He did neither.
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  8. Howard Yuen, Amazon pays their employees well. The warehouse in my city they are paid $15/hr with amazing benefits, college scholarship offers for their kids, and stock options. Also, the fact is they do not have the money to pay more. Their value is derived from their shares. The company is valued high because they created a lot of jobs and produce a lot in the economy. They have a thin profit margin.
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  9. Ever thought you were voting against your best interest?
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  10. Blair B, single payer won't be cheaper. A lot of money is spent to keep prices low. For example, spending on fraud prevention and disease awareness. A major problem with medicare for all is the lack of moral hazard. This is seen in insurance, but companies can alleviate it. It is seen with the FDIC and the 1980s banking crisis. What happened is that banks took many risks but knew they were insured, and thus had nothing to lose. If that sounds familiar the same thing happened recently with the bank bailouts. Now that was different, but essentially it was a case of where a bank can take very high risks with no fear of loss. The same will happen with medicare for all. Why should people work in managing their health and finances involved in it when the government will pick up the tab? Insurance companies has ways, but government is restricted. If the government tries those politicians will be voted out. That is why for years, even republicans, are hesitate in cutting spending and/or raising taxes to tackle our deficit. Doing so is political suicide. Thus medicare for all will cost way more than what we have as there is no way to control the cost.
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  11. Kai Sellgren, it isn't that simple. To start, the US has 320+ million people. How many people does Finland have? Next, those countries have many shortcomings. You look at just cost in healthcare but ignore the plethora of standards to determine quality. The WHO is an arbitrary ranking. It weighted overall life expectancy at 50% which is one, arbitrary, and two, very shallow as many factors influence overall life expectancy. Two professors showed that if you remove car accidents and murders the US is number one in life expectancy. Healthcare is a very complex issue, that is why it is a major portion of every countries' GDP. To simply say other countries do it better is based off of nothing objectively.
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  12. Icyw20, there is something wrong with that. He is a hypocrite. Also, Bernie has never produced anything in his life.
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  13. There is poverty in every economic system. Bernie complaining about it is pure appeal to emotions. What Bernie and his fan base have to realize is that those in poverty have it better off than those who were rich 80 years ago. Everyone's lives are doing better due to capitalistic gains.
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  14. Blair B, 1. The rich pay most of the taxes, it is not surprising the receive most of the cuts. You can't cut from zero 2. The bail outs were bad but that is not a free market solution. The political right did not agree to the bail outs 3. This is a problem of big government, something Bernie wants to expand 4. They are using tax cuts to invest 5. They charge high prices due to high taxes and regulations 6. The min. wage is the minimum 7. What? 8. So?
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