Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "MSNBC: Bernie Supporters Don't Care About Policy" video.

@ccgm-harpy , that tax rate you cite is on income, not wealth. A wealth tax won't work as it is difficult to actually value wealth.
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@akmal94ibrahim , saying single payer "works" is vague.
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No they don't
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He isn't wrong.
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He is all talk and no action. When asked why he won't pay more in taxes he just dodged the question.
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@kamifuujin , why doesn't he donate his money for the time being?
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@snuzzlebumble , but for the time being he can donate his money to a cause he supports. Reality is that he is all talk and no action.
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@snuzzlebumble , Bernie has over a million dollars. And donating is a start. Bernie wants other to pay up but he isn't leading by example. That is the problem. He is all talk and no action.
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@emmanuellovell5732 , for who? President. Trump unless Tulsi ends up running against him.
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@snuzzlebumble , sure, but for the time being he can donate money. That will be him leading by example. Talk is cheap. In his M4A bill there is nothing that talks about how he will prevent providers from raising prices. Anyone can write anything, doesn't mean it is worth something. And is the bill going to pass? No. So what is the point? Also, he can donate money to something like medical research.
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@snuzzlebumble , and no, we don't have a system in place for these programs to function. So you are telling me our current healthcare system can take on tens of millions of more patients with a 40% less pay rate with no negative side effects?
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@snuzzlebumble , why won't they raise prices? You are increasing their demand. If your employer required you to do more work won't you ask for a raise? SS is losing money and min. wage laws have killed jobs and led to price increases. Besides, SS covers only one section of the population and min. wage increases in the past have been strategically done so any negative side effects are masked in the overall economy. You are talking about healthcare which is 1/6 of the overall economy. That's huge. Women voting was about human rights and not about doing drastic changes to the economy. Other nations struggle in healthcare. The US leads the world in advanced testing and survival rates of advanced illnesses. Other nations keep cost down by capping how much care one can receive. So no, other nations are not better across the board. I still won't support M4A if Bernie donated money to charity, but I will respect him a lot more. Fact is he is a hypocrite. But tell me, what will stop healthcare providers from raising prices under M4A? You are avoiding the difficult which is my point on Bernie and his fans.
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@snuzzlebumble , we have an expensive care because we offer more advanced testing compared to other nations. For example, we offer more MRIs and CT scans compared to other nations. Other nations keep cost down by capping how much care one receives. Other nations deny care as well. SS is losing money because like all federal government programs it ends up costing more than expected. In accounting working with pensions are a bitch as you can't predict how long people will live, their health, how long they will work, etc. SS is very similar. It was released with the average life expectancy was lower than the age to qualify for it. Now more people are living longer. Another example of the federal government mismanaging funds is the Community Mental Health Act of 1963. Only half of the hospitals were open and none of them were fully funded. Uh, min. wage does kill jobs and raise prices. Economists know this and agree with it. FDR turned a recession into a depression. "So allowing women to vote is a human right, but being able to not die from sickness is not a human right?" Major differences. The former does not require anyone's services or goods. The latter does. Rights in the US are there to allow for individuals to take on the government. Also, rights are things that cannot be taken away without due process. So no, healthcare is not a human right. Healthcare rankings are completely arbitrary. Anyone can do any legit analysis on the stats and come up with any ranking they want. That is why every healthcare ranking comes from special interest groups with a motive. Comparing M4A to programs like police, roads, schools, etc. is flawed. All of those programs you listed are locally ran and funded, and are a drop in the bucket compared to cost. You are trying to push a federal programs by looking at locally ran programs. Also, again, what will stop providers from just raising prices? If the government is not willing to pay then what will stop providers from denying care?
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@grmpEqweer , ok, on the 45,000 stat there are several issues there. One, amenable mortality is an issue every nation faces. So is that 45,000 high, low, or the norm compared to other nations? You can't say as no similar study was done. Plus, amenable mortality is very difficult to measure. On that 45,000 stat Prof. Katherine Baicker said that those individuals are poor and bad health is associated with being poor. So the question becomes do they die due to lack of access or due to being in bad health to begin with? I mentioned in the book "Being Mortal" people seek out modern medicine to live another 5 or 10 years but will really live only 5 or 10 months. So if you give access to care to those 45,000 and they die in 5 months, was that a success? So it is difficult to determine how and why those 45,000 die. As for insulin, a major problem is that there is little competition in healthcare. The federal government prevents competition from happening in healthcare. Nationalizing it won't increase competition.
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@grmpEqweer , ok, so then what will stop healthcare providers from simply denying care at that point? That is what other nations do, they cap how much care one receives.
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@doomdesire2809 , I agree we have no negotiation powers. That is because we do not have a free market healthcare system. "If healthcare is run by the government, there wouldnt be a private insurer to deny care." How so?
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Those are policies but instead bumper sticker talking points. When pressed none of Bernie's fans can explain how to actually implement those programs.
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