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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by willravel
This $1000 per year number assumes equal distribution, and reliable numbers. I think the interesting thing, though, would be to ask if these uninsured people can afford $1000 a year for health insurance. I am of the opinion, based on numbers from other countries with universal healthcare (cept France), that universal healthcare will actually save money for everyone. $83 a month is a rather small bill for insurance, agreed?
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Anytime someone tries to sell me on something, it's never what they sold me on. This is still the same point for me. I don't think that it will be $83 a month for anyone, or at least it's not going to be $83 for me, since the plan is based on percentage of income.
So let's stop pretending that I'm going to be paying less until I actually pay less.
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Hillary Clinton proposes paying for half of her $1.1 trillion (over 10 years) healthcare plan through cost savings/modernization and the other half through higher taxes on wealthier Americans (those earning more than $250,000) by eliminating a portion of the Bush tax cuts.
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A trillion dollars and higher taxes... that's all that I see there. You don't think that the people with $250k don't have power to lobby for less burden or tax breaks elsewhere.
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