Comments by "Roger Dodger" (@rogerdodger8415) on "Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to guarantee a job for all Americans" video.
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lamp007 Sometime in September, Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to unveil his "Medicare for all" bill, which would have the government pay 100% of the nation's entire health care costs.
Sanders, like all of his kindred single-payer advocates, claims that every other industrialized country in the world provides guaranteed universal coverage, and has lower health costs and better health outcomes as a result.
But what Sanders and Co. never, ever, say is that those countries also require their citizens to pay a far bigger share of health care dollars out of pocket than the U.S. does today, or that most of them have some form of private health insurance in the mix.
In Denmark, for example, out-of-pocket spending accounts for 14% of the country's health budget, according to the latest data from the OECD. Australians pay almost 20% of their health costs out of pocket. Brits pay 15% of their health costs directly, as do Canadians. Swiss citizens pay a whopping 28% out of pocket.
Even in Communist China, people pay 32% of the nation's health care costs out of their own pockets, according to the Commonwealth Fund.
On that score, the U.S. system is already more generous than even socialist countries. Just 11% of health costs are paid for out of pocket in the U.S, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Ei’ríġ Proinsias Dammantaċ Ó Gamhna. Well, yes modern Russia IS communist by definition. Now, seeing as how it's been a TOTAL FAILURE, they came to the conclusion that they had to make changes or LOSE POWER. So, acting as a mob boss, Putin doled out his inefficient state run bureaucracies and installed his henchmen to run them. And YES, I am telling you that their economy is based on oil. They do have weapon sales that bring them hard currency, but those are based on give away financial terms. I'm also telling you that they can "call" themselves what they want, but they are communists. Bernie Sanders is a communist, then changed to a softer term like socialist, and then an even softer "democratic" socialist. Make it sound palatable for young useful idiots. His work with support of the Sandanistas showed his true colors. Now, as your statement about the Iraq war, there's a NOT so subtle difference between murder of your OWN PEOPLE (Stalin) and murdering combatants. (Bush) Between allowing multi party elections (USA) and giving NO CHOICE (Stalin) . Finally, your wild, foolish comment on invasions for oil??? The USA is AWASH in oil! We have Canada that wanted to build a pipeline to us with BILLIONS of gallons of oil for the taking! We don't need, have never needed, AND NEVER HAVE TAKEN one barrel of Iraqi oil. In fact, the Chinese won the drilling rights to their fields. We're we in Afghanistan for the oil? Rediculous!! We are EXPORTING OIL. And it's use is going DOWN here in the USA. It's China, that is using MORE. No, America has never starved its people. Creating a FAMINE. It has NEVER acted like POL POT in Cambodia, under Communism, that EXTERMINATED their own people.
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