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| Kamala Harris calls for elimination of private health insurance |
| 2019-01-29 |
"We need to have Medicare for all," Harris, a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, said in response to a question on whether she would cut private insurers out of the American healthcare system at a CNN town hall in Iowa Monday night. When pressed by CNN's Jake Tapper on if those people who enjoy their insurance could keep it, Harris said that it was time to "eliminate" all private health insurance. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #19 --- I went looking for a design-your-own ballcap company & found they wouldn't let me use that to design my own ballcap. Haven't found that design online either, though. --- Also I forgot that "MACACA" is considered racis by French language specialists. Stealth application of bumper stickers in parking lots is a great prank, too. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-01-29 18:40 |
| #18 #17 That's genius. |
| Posted by: charger 2019-01-29 18:15 |
| #17 "MACA" Kamala just wants to Make America CA. "MACACA" is a far more appropriate set of initials, i.e., "Make America CACA" This could become a great satirical hat. You read it on the 'Burg first! |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-01-29 18:06 |
| #16 Half of all doctors are reportedly ready to quit. Push this through and half of the rest will join them in actually quitting. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-01-29 14:03 |
| #15 "MACA" Kamala just wants to Make America CA. Let's send her a hat. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2019-01-29 12:15 |
| #14 Harris and everyone else are still at the fund-raising stages of their campaigns. She sees the private health insurers as great big sacks of cash. So, read her statement as "Nice little health insurer you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it." And no offense MM, but if you want to shut down the state insurance bureaucracies, you better be prepared to pry them from the commissioners' cold dead hands. Lots of rice bowls. |
| Posted by: Matt 2019-01-29 11:53 |
| #13 Let all insurance companies offer plans nationwide But...but...then they'd have to, you know, compete. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-01-29 11:35 |
| #12 I'd be the first to say nobody should have to pay for others' problems, but take a look at what an insurance pool actually is. When I mentioned ob-gyn I was thinking about abortion services and contraception. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-01-29 10:30 |
| #11 ...caused by life long self abuse that only expensive medical miracles can stave off the inevitable. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-01-29 10:17 |
| #10 and hopefully younger people not having to fund old people's health problems either. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-01-29 09:02 |
| #9 1) Eliminate state insurance commissions 2) Eliminate insurance company lobbying at the state level 3) Let all insurance companies offer plans nationwide, no gummint requirements for old people to subsidize ob-gyn bennies for younger people. 4) nothing's that simple, but it a good starting point. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-01-29 08:25 |
| #8 Did you know that United Healthcare's share price has increased eightfold since O'care happened? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-01-29 08:22 |
| #7 I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand it won't work. On the other hand it puts us in the position of defending Obamacare which put us in the situation of being fucked over by the insurance companies and protecting us from their just deserts. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-01-29 08:20 |
| #6 Medicare for all? These Dem candidates ignore the fact that retirees paid into Medicare all their working lives and they continue to pay into it after age 65. The Ponzi scheme will not work. "The government that is big enough to "give" you everything is also big enough to take everything away." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-01-29 08:15 |
| #5 people who say 'Medicare for All' need to be asked if that means just part A (hospital) or does it mean A&B or A,B, C and D. If it means D also, does that mean free marijuana and does medicare for all include illegal immigrants |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-01-29 06:50 |
| #4 ...except of course for the connected. You know like the entire ward of Walter Reed army hospital that was for congresscritter along with the full staffing. While Walter Reed was overloaded with Gulf War casualties, the ward was basically empty. Restrict each Congresscritter and family to a slot at VA or BIA hospitals for care. Let them see what government run medicine is like. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-01-29 06:49 |
| #3 The left favour extortion over reciprocation... Has anyone asked her if she favours doing the same for car-insurance? Think of the incentives you create... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-01-29 03:59 |
| #2 A potentialy new cash stream to mismanage. |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-01-29 03:45 |
| #1 ALL her decisions are bad. All. |
| Posted by: newc 2019-01-29 02:54 |