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Topic subjectPete Buttigieg’s Health Care Plan Is A Joke
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13367798, Pete Buttigieg’s Health Care Plan Is A Joke
Posted by reaction, Wed Feb-19-20 11:03 AM
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/02/10/pete-buttigiegs-health-care-plan-is-a-joke/

Jeff Stein at the Washington Post got to the bottom of this question in December and reported that it is the latter: the Obamacare mandate on steroids. Under Buttigieg’s plan, rather than paying a $695 fine at the end of the year if you are uninsured (as in the now-repealed Obamacare mandate), you could pay a fine as high as $7,000. This sort of lump sum shock is going to wreck most of the households hit with it and be even more of a political disaster than the much more modest Obamacare fine, which was itself a bit of a political disaster.

Buttigieg’s own effort to defend his plan is to make big-number claims about how Medicare for All will cost $30 trillion or $50 trillion. The suggestion of these attacks on M4A is that his plan is much cheaper. But in fact, it is clearly more expensive, at least when we look at what matters: total national health expenditures.

I don't want to really discuss this with you either, last month you went full mask off and were spewing some vitriolic hate towards Bernie's movement so I know none of these arguments are in good faith. One example is reply #170 here:

https://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=13344033&mesg_id=13344033&listing_type=search#13361750