Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "Warren's Health Care Rollout Plan Is Horrible" video.

@elijahculper5522 the Sanders plan has the crucial ingredients of the single payer countries (rich nations that spend half per person compared to the U.S.). the MANDATE. No duplicative coverage (so the private administrative middle men are restricted to the fringes where they belong). No opting-out (that would mean a public option. Public option especially in the U.S. means that the insurers can cherrypick the pools. * 90 % of costs are caused by 10 % of the insured - do the purges right and you can offer a plan that seems to be reasonable priced while being of course still way too expensive. * in Switzerland they have only private insurance. Regulation works regarding coverage and delivery of care - but not for the price. The government mandates that everyone must have insurance. Not to forget that the opportunity to vastly reduce complex billing for at least the whole age group is squandered. What is usually forgotten: if all people are in this together, it gives a lot of political leverage. Nothing like the wealthy using the same coverage, and providers to make sure the public insurer has sufficient budgets. If they are not good then (= paying enough good rates to the providers and having their admin figured out) - well that can be fixed. Again: the affluent would be valuable allies to make sure the services that they use as well, are good and cost-efficient. if - IF - the public agency has a reasonable budget per person they will always beat the profiteers. Even IF they were not greedy and content with a modest profit - the for-profit insurers have costs that the non-profits do not have (sales, marketing, extra admin, processing applications and evaluating the risks, profit margin, etc.)
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@elijahculper5522 other countries also have pharma research. and btw the basic research is massively funded by the U.S. tax payer. No, they would not have to slash their R & D budgets. The ongoing costs of the long term projects (they always have several in the pipeline) show up in their expenditures. profit is what is left over AFTER they spend their usual budgets on research. Moreover they have vast marketing budgets, that they can reduce if they have to deal with one large negotiating partner and have to deliver to all pharmacies at the same price.
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The financing plan gimmick and now this "too cute by half" rollout "plan". - I think she is signalling to the superdelegates and big donors that she is not that serious. (The blueprint can be faulty if you do not intend to build the house). - That or her personality is getting in the way. Recently in a clip Krystall Ball (The Hill / Rising) had an interesting take on Warrens desire to have the prefect answer that will not offend anybody and her need to get an A to every answer and to square conflicting demands She argues that it might make Warren susceptible to being played (goaded by Trump to do an DNA test and publish it when she has less heritage - at least in the DNA - than the average American *) The plan to finance it seems to avoid that the "middle class has to pay taxes" (it will hit them anyway, and the plan would effectively undermine MfA's budget. Most companies would try to have not more than 50 employees. They can split, work only with contractors. And a head tax is a regressive tax. Calculating it from what companies now pay - they are currently forced to buy overpriced plans - punishes generous employers. That they have to pay 98 % so they get a 2 percent "discount" does not help. Warren cowers befor the rightwing talking point that paying taxes is the worst thing. Ever. Plus she allows more room for private insurers than they should have. They are glorified paper shufflers (in the U.S. with extreme admin cost and predatory practices. for healthcare they bring nothing to the table. Public non-profit insurance agencies beat them when they have comparable budgets. (so the public offer can be free a the point of delivery when the private insurers have to ask for more, or there are deductibles etc. Warren she knotted herself and the financing "plan" into a pretzel and would rather submit a plan that has glaring loopholes than just admit that yes taxes will go up but net almost all people will pay less. Because then some can accuse her of being a tax raiser. Now, with the rollout we learn it is only another version of the "public option" - and the industry can well live with that. There is a reason almost all candidates that seem to support MfA and use the term have a public option. So no one can attack her on that, and she has for show included that MfA will come ... later. She did not do her homework, there is a reason that billions of people and most since the end of WW2 have genuine single payer and NOT a public option. The mandate, no duplicative coverage, and the public coverage is - and must be - comprehensive. These are the people that have half the spending of the U.S per person. On many continents. That should give pause to Warren. * Sure the First Nations sometimes adopted caucasian children usually they were hostages or kidnapped, and often their parents had been killed. If they were young enough they were often raised and as preteens the children were able to suppress what had happened to their former families. Some of these children were picked up later by their original extended family, under threat or a ransom was paid. (not all even wanted to return). But all in all it is very likely the family story was a folclore tale. so it would have been wise to destroy the test results, never talk of them and finally coming up with some good and concise statements.
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