Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Bernie Dismantles Mayor Pete's Scam Healthcare Plan" video.

@Adrian Nelson , without competition you have nothing to push Medicare to be better. Also, there is nothing to compare it to. If we only have Medicare how do we know it can't be better? We don't as we have no other system to compare it to. Also, other nations have a private option. In Canada they had to allow private hospitals to open up as the public system was not keeping up with demand.
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I don't want it.
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He just spews the same talking points over and over again. He is admitting that Medicare is inferior to the private system which is why he wants to ban it.
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@jameskingsbridge8890 , Kyle doesn't know what he is talking about. His understanding of healthcare is very poor.
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@oswarz , because a tax you are forced to pay. I don't have to pay for healthcare if I don't want to.
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If you make college tuition free it loses value. The value in college comes from it being an investment you make as an adult.
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Higher payroll tax means lower wages. Also, many people, like me, pay very little in healthcare and thus I will be paying more.
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Asking how one will pay for it is a legit question. Deflecting to the military spending is flawed. One, defense spending has been dropping for decades where government healthcare spending has been going up for years. Plus, everyone agrees we need a military. Not so much agreement on federal healthcare. As M4A costing less is a myth. Every "study" that says it saves money completely ignores quality and access or they use very conservative numbers.
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Medicare is already losing money and the private system subsidizes Medicare. If we went to M4A then access and quality in healthcare will drop.
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@theinterruptionwithriansar3768 , negotiate how? Plus, Medicare already has lower payout rates compared to the private sector.
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@jodders619 , healthcare rankings are completely arbitrary. The US leads the world in survival rates of advanced illnesses and access to advanced testing. In many ways the US is better than the UK and France when it comes to healthcare.
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Tamaz Okruashvili , M4A will not cost less than our current system.
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@PolymorphBanana , look at all federal government programs. How many of them actually save money? It is why we have such a high federal debt. So now M4A will be this one time the federal government saves money? History says otherwise. The only way it saves money is if access and quality drop. Look at the Community Mental Health Act. It was underfunded and adding more funds will simply make mental healthcare more expensive than previously project. It became a mess with less facilities and lower quality.
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@PolymorphBanana what studies?
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@PolymorphBanana Sweden has a flat tax compared to us
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@PolymorphBanana , uh, the UMass study. The one with many flaws. For example, they have a portion in there where they admit jobs will be lost but they give a value, which they give no explanation in how they obtain it, in helping people move when they have to get a new job. There is a major problem there. When you perturb the economy like that you change it in an unpredictable way. For example, when you kill jobs and the people there have to move to another location the prices of their homes drop due to less demand. And the home prices they are moving to goes up due to increase demand. Thus more money is needed. Also, there are psychological effects that will take place as well. There are reasons why that study was not peer reviewed. Besides, it never mentions quality. It is assuming quality and access remains the same. I actually read those studies. You apparently haven't With Sweden if you want to follow that model you have to tax everyone higher, not just the rich. Bernie refuses to admit that. So you support higher taxes on the middle class?
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@PolymorphBanana , and again, I go off of history. Obamacare was supposed to save money. Bernie voted for Obamacare. So now I am supposed to trust him here?
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@PolymorphBanana , you want me to provide sources I can. Again, those saying M4A will lower how much we spend does have some truth to it. But if our spending is going to go down to the level other nations have so will our quality and access. Read the book "In Excellent Health" by Stanford Prof. Scott Atlas. He outlines how the US is superior when it comes to access to advanced testing and survival rates of advanced illnesses. For example, we offer more CT scans and MRIs per capita. And M4A as written bans private insurance where that failed in other nations. As prof. Katherine Baicker said "On the other hand, a single payer system does not automatically provide high quality care: the provision of low-value care is as pervasive in the single payer Medicare system as it is elsewhere. Single-payer systems are also slow to innovate – as suggested by the fact that it took Medicare 40 years to add a prescription drug benefit, long after most private insurers had done so. Nor do calculations of the costs of a single-payer system measure the utility loss from forcing people with different preferences into a monolithic health insurance plan. The private facilities that have sprung up in Canada to meet the demands of those who want more health care than the public system provides fundamentally undermine the “single payer” nature of the system. " The harsh reality is this, other nations spend less because they offer less. That is why people die in other nations waiting for "elective heart surgery" or "elective neurosurgery". Read the paper entitled "True versus reported waiting times for valvular aortic stenosis surgery" Under M4A you are increasing demand with out increasing supply, and you are also cutting pay. If I cut your pay by 40% how will you feel? You say " Medicare for all is where anybody can go to any doctor, any hospital they want, and the government simply pays for it. That’s it" What is doctors jack up their prices? Or what if people want to see the best doctors who have limited time? Then what? Now Medicare for all will cost much more as doctors will charge more. If the government refuses to pay than doctors will refuse to serve. That is what other nations do. That is why they have much longer wait times which has dire effects. Read the paper entitled "A messy reality: an analysis of New Zealand's elective surgery scoring system via media sources, 2000–2006" Where they say "Research has also considered the impact of waiting on patients, with findings that those awaiting necessary treatments often face considerable costs. These may be financial if the ability to work is affected and if there is a need to pay for additional care and therapeutics while awaiting treatment. Costs for the health system may arise if patients are not treated in a timely manner and develop more serious conditions or co-morbidities as a consequence of waiting. There may also be quality-of-life impacts, as well as impacts on family or caregivers " You are over simplifying this very complex issue
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@PolymorphBanana , here is the problem with far leftists on this issue. They feel under M4A that our quality and access will be the same but at a lower cost . I will ask you this simple question. What will happen when healthcare providers jack up all of their prices? How will M4A react to that? And I have far more sources than you do and can provide more if needed.
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@orionh3000 "Just because Obamacare wasn’t great doesn’t mean Medicare for all will fail, since they are totally different. " Bernie voted for Obamacare on the idea it will save money. So I should trust him now? "Clearly you haven’t read Bernie’s plan."' But you are wrong, I have. One part has it where doctors can opt out of Medicare for all. But you claim I can see any doctor. So what is it? Healthcare is 1/6 of our economy. Going to M4A will have drastic changes to it. The housing market was 5% of our economy and look how much damage changes to that did.
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@PolymorphBanana , I never said there is way more evidence against M4A. There is plenty of evidence that M4A can work. However, it will come with major changes that I doubt our culture will accept. Saying other countries make it "work" is flawed as they have many problems in their system. Plus, their cultures are completely different. Hard to compare. You saying "and clearly they get better outcomes compared to the U.S" Is simply not true. The US is superior to them in many ways, mainly in advanced care.
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@PittsburghSonido , define a "need". That is hard to do which is why in other nations people die waiting for "elective" heart surgery. A lot of waiting times in other nations for "elective" care are around 6 months or longer.
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Tamaz Okruashvili , my insurance company covers me.
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@carldean3159 , all Bernie does is wave his arms in the air and repeat the same handful of talking points. That will never attract moderates which is why he is a terrible candidate.
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@JohnJackson-lx2js , that is typically really. How many are living paycheck to paycheck because of poor money management?
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What about the NCAA?
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@tylerhammond6590 , college athletes are paid. With tuition free college you will have to change the structure of the NCAA. Right now there are three divisions, I, II, and III. They are set up on based on scholarships. Division III are all walk ons. In football divisions II have 36 full ride scholarships they can split up. Division I football has 86 full rides. Thus they get the better athletes, but division II still gets solid athletes. If you make college "tuition free" there is no need for scholarships. So now how do you organize the NCAA so that smaller schools can still compete?
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@tylerhammond6590 , that is my point in asking about the NCAA. If you make college tuition free you will drastically change how it is ran. So how do you account for that?
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@tylerhammond6590 , this is a problem with the far left and something Hickenlooper brought up in the debates. People like Bernie just want to throw a plan out there and expect others to pick up the pieces. That is dangerous. Even something as simple as the NCAA will be completely transformed. Bernie has not thought about any of this. Overall, I oppose tuition free college as the value of a college degree comes from the fact that it is an investment you make as an adult. In college you gain many skills outside of the classroom which makes you a better person. It is not an extension to high school that many on the far left feel.
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@tylerhammond6590 , I pulled out loans to attend college and went to a small college. Through hard work I was accepted into graduate school and is close to getting my PhD. It can be done.
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Do your duty comrade.
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