Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Yang Admits He's Been Lying About Medicare For All" video.

  1. Nice strawman. Nobody is saying private insurance will be eradicated overnight. Also, nobody is saying private insurers can't still exist to cover extras, like chiropractors, massages, acupuncture, etc. They just won't be able to sell people what they can already get through M4A. The "public option" route isn't simply letting private insurers exist, or weeding them out slowly. The "public option" route makes paying into public healthcare optional, and has public insurance compete with private insurance, just hoping everyone will switch to public. It's not Medicare for all. It's Medicare for all who opt in. And, having everyone pay in with equal premiums, even if they are lower priced than private, is regressive compared to it being paid for with a progressive tax.
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  2. The "public option" makes paying into the government healthcare optional, not simply giving you the option for private extras. That would be a "private option". If the rich can opt out, then you can't have progressive payments into M4A.
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  3. No. It's "Medicare for all" vs "Medicare for all who opt in". "All who opt in" isn't "all".
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  4. The "public option" isn't letting private insurance still exist for extras. It turns Medicare into a public insurer that competes with private insurers.
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  5. But Yang is also bullshitting that a VAT forces giant corporations like Amazon to pay taxes. It's built into a VAT system that businesses get paid back for any input VAT. Since it wouldn't actually tax Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will only make Amazon an extra $60b a year. That would make Bezos an extra $6b a year. He'd have to personally blow over $60b a year on goods and services with a VAT to pay more than he gets out of Yang's plan.
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  6.  @otthau  I'm a Canadian. We have a VAT and universal healthcare paid with taxes. Totally irrelevant to what "public option" means. It means you can opt out, including opting out of paying into it. Saying to pay for it with taxes isn't a "public option", if you don't give them the "option".
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  7.  @otthau  Yang is bullshitting about the VAT, as well. Either that or he's clueless that businesses get paid back for any input VAT.
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  8.  @otthau  And, Yang hasn't proposed doing a VAT differently than other countries, where governments pay businesses back claiming to avoid double taxation.
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  9.    What country in Europe has UBI for all?
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  10. Yeah, the choice in a "public option" is to not opt to pay in. You couldn't find it with a progressive tax, and if you tried to make progressive optional premiums, the rich would simply opt out.
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  11.  @3745green  What additional insurance is "required" with Medicare?
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  12.  @3745green  Learn the definition of "required", dumbass. And a M4A plan, like Bernie's, rolls Medicare up with Medicaid, and fills in those supposed "gaps".
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  13. Honestly, the "public option" sucks. 6 years in LA and not anywhere close to all of the public opting in.
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