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234's avatar

Trump BELIEVES the election was stolen. So do many others. It's not been proven, but since when is a belief a lie?

Trump exaggerates the crowd size, but have you personally done a head count as you seem so sure of this being a lie? Prove he's not lying, then prove why we should care.

Can you prove Harris is not using AI, and why should anyone care?

Why don't you tell us why we should have a wealth tax, and government provided health care?

Tell us why you support an open border leading to increased, horrific crime?

You want more wars around the globe? How many were started under Trump?

Explain the Biden crime cover up, laptop, selling access, etc. Want me to go on?

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Scotty Greene's avatar

“Biden crime cover up, laptop, selling access etc.”

The R’s have controlled the House and two powerful investigative committees(Oversight and Judiciary) for two years. What do they have to show for it? Bluster and whining with little if no evidence.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Great points. One thought I would have is why we should have government-provided heal care. Because every other industrialized nation has considerably better access — and outcomes — than we do.

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Theresa Bruno's avatar

No they do not. People who can afford it purchase additional insurance. Do you ever wonder why they come to the US for their care?

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234's avatar

Name one enterprise the government runs that is more efficient than private sector?

The DMV? The Post Office? How many road workers does it take to fill a pothole?

You really want the government in charge of the most important service to you and your family? Think hard before you answer.......

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Too easy. Medicare. It’s unquestionably better than the dreck we get from parasites like United Health Care, Aetna, etc.

Remember the ‘09 ACA process? A lady told Rep Barney Franks in a town hall to “keep your damn government hands off my Medicare!” She loved her health care coverage though she was a bit confused whence it came.

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234's avatar

How many people would choose Medicare if it wasn't forced on us?

And how much fraud is involved? You think government is the answer to every issue....it's they who turn it into a problem. If Medicare is so wonderful, how come 220M people have private insurance.

You should go away Butt.....you're real bad news.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

The fact that you think I’m bad news is more than a little way down my priority list. Commenters who disagree with you should go away? Are you auditioning for a role with the Harris administration?

When did I claim government is the answer to everything? That’s delusional—on the part of anyone thinking it, and on your part for claiming I think that.

Do you work for a health insurance company? Or own a lot of health insurance stock?

Medicare is only for the elderly. Most or many of your 220 million aren’t eligible for Medicare. I really hope you’re not learning this for the first time.

Do you ever re-read your comments before hitting Post? May want to consider that, it will probably help prevent you from saying things like 220 million have private insurance. Which is completely irrelevant if they aren’t eligible for Medicare.

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234's avatar

Medicare does not cover 100% of insurance costs sh*t for brains.

Go away

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

And no one said it did, dumbass.

You want to tell me about the 220 million people who don’t want Medicare, even though they’re not eligible for it, one more time?

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Theresa Bruno's avatar

Guess what? Medicare IS NOT FREE and IT DOES NOT COVER 100%. I am retired on Medicare and it cost me over $450 every month just for myself. What do you think it’s going to cost to cover a family? And who is going to pay for it?

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Not much of value is free. Medicare cost you 1.45% of every dollar you earn. Plus the additional fees once on it. That’s still a shitload better than letting citizens fend for themselves if they aren’t lucky enough to have it through work. I’m retired and not yet eligible for Medicare. $450 per month? I know a couple hundred million Americans who would take that deal. I’m retired but not yet Medicare eligible. I pay a hell of a lot more than that for our coverage.

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Theresa Bruno's avatar

As I said that is for one person. It would be $2,000 for a family of four and it does not include vision, dental or drugs. How do you suppose people will be able to afford that? I guess you think it’s perfectly okay for all of us to pay 50-60% of our earnings in taxes to pay for it. I am not prepared at this point in my life to do that. You can volunteer your own taxes.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

What kind of family has 4 people on Medicare?

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Theresa Bruno's avatar

What kind of a stupid question are you asking? You just finished saying above that there are millions of Americans without health insurance who would love a Medicare "deal". WHO the heck do you think those people are ?

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

The question responds to your stupid notion of Medicare's cost of "$2,000 for a family of four." (It would actually be $1,800.) Theresa, you are the one who brought up paying for Medicare for a family of four. I suspect it was a slip of the tongue in written words. Because Medicare doesn't cover Mom, Dad, and young Chad and Brittany. Medicare in a household typically covers 2 old people, or 1 person, as in your case. I suppose that if one of a 70- and 72-year-old couple's 93- and 95-year-old parents live with them, it could be 4 people with Medicare, but it would not be a nuclear family as we understand it, would it?

And you've apparently forgotten the ACA debate. So I'll try to go slowly. Remember the proposed "public option?" You could probably look it up. It would have been an option for Americans to opt into a Medicare-like coverage vs. being gouged by health insurance companies. People would have loved to have Medicare's coverage. And to have it for $450 a month in 2024? People would love it! But they were/are not eligible for it, because the health insurance companies made damn sure Senate Finance Chair Max Baucus (D-MT) wouldn't advance a bill out of committee with a public option in it. And Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel didn't have the stones to stand up to him.

Also, who TF pays 50-60% of their earnings in federal taxes for Medicare or anything? I'll answer it for you: no one. Where did you pull that one out of?

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Theresa Bruno's avatar

Oh wow I was off by a whopping $200. Tell me how many families can afford $1,800 a month when they cannot afford it now. What a joke. And BTW Mr. Know it all….two old people pay two premiums not one and two supplemental plan costs and two drug plan costs. You are arrogant and rude and condescending. Let me say that slowly. RUDE

AND IN EUROPE “FREE” healthcare comes with a HIGH TAX PRICE TAG

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