Weiner Fights for Single Payer on the Floor

Weiner Fights for Single Payer on the Floor

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[wayindie]

this guy rocks! i see a very bright political future for him.

Weiner for President!

what he says is logical.

i am a fiscal conservative, very small business owner and the current system is totally flawed, individuals & small businesses don't get the group discounts for health insurance that big companies do. the cost is disproportionate to pay.

i simply can't offer health insurance as a benefit to my employees & it's that much harder to recruit & retain employees.

[tengyang2001]

Thank you Representative Weiner.

[thomasw78]

True... that's why I'm a libertarian. The only thing forcing me to send money to worthless insurance companies is our perverse government incentive system that ties health insurance with employment and crowds out the millions of self-employed that can't get it through their employer.

[hms08KY]

Wow--no one explains it better!

When Repubs say Medicare is going broke-here's a response: "If you want to kill a program, starve it for funding." That's what supporters of a for-profit all-private system have been trying to do Medicare.

Yesterday, Sen Grassley, speaking against the public option, actually made the case for a single payer system.

Rep. Weiner explains how Medicare works for seniors in Brooklyn. How would Medicare-for-all work for farm families in in Iowa?

[quickboat22]

I would bet my bottom dollar that the politicians health policies (we pay for) are way over priced. The plans are top tier plans and even if priced right I doubt we could afford them for all. Everything tax payers pay for is over priced. Government takeover is not the solution, but the solution cannot be done without government involvement. We must walk a fine line between government and liberty. Too many times liberty is the last thing that is considered.

[twist676]

but wait you just contradicted yourself. you say that the solution isn't the gov't but the insurance companies that will lower cost then in the same breath you say that the insurance that the gov't politicians get from the same insurance companies your advocating for are probably paying too much for the coverage help me out here with your logic. So let me get this straight, you believe that the politicians health care which is far better then what you and i can get is still over priced?

[quickboat22]

That is correct though I'm sure they pay way more then the policy is worth.

[twist676]

and only a republican would think that a program that suck money out of his pocket, increase his cost annually, denies him the services he's already paid for, and makes a profit off the suffering of the sick is good for him and his fellow American's. That's the goal of the health insurance industry.

[twist676]

well if we had the same insurance they have then you wouldn't have too worry just like they don't now would we?

[twist676]

so i guess you condone the doughnut hole that is medicare advantage which is nothing more then a addon insurance premium that exploits seniors and does not cover half of what it was suppose to and in fact uses the name "medicare" to fool them into believing it's from the the gov't when it isn't.

[quickboat22]

Partly because there is no easy answer. We can hold our elected officials accountable by forcing them to be participants in every way that we are first. Then we can look at getting the state regulations to overlap each other to help in portability. Then we can try similar tort reforms that have saved many states from totally unreasonable suits. We should look at a version of Medicare Advantage that works better then medicare and is a combination of public and private systems. Start with these.

[twist676]

you offer criticism but no solution. So i guess you like paying millions of dollars in salary to CEO's of the health care industry. how about that money go to medicare patients and the doctors.