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Les Leopold - America's Biggest Lie: We Can't Afford Medicare for All
To supporters of all candidates who advocate for Medicare For All and/or single-payer healthcare...
Check out Les Leopld's compelling article on its great importance for this county. He makes a very incisive case.
http://commondreams.org/views/2019/04/23/americas-biggest-lie-we-cant-afford-medicare-all
Americas Biggest Lie: We Cant Afford Medicare for All
Les Leopold
April 23, 2019
Think about how much your income would go up if you didn't have to pay for healthcare at all. That would begin to close the gap between productivity and wages for the first time in a generation.
Pundits and politicians repeatedly warn us that the country cannot afford costly social services. They caution about the perils of a rising national debt, the supposed near bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security, and the need to sell public services to the highest bidder in order to save them. We must tighten our belts sooner or later, they tell us, rather than spend on social goods like universal health care, free higher education and badly needed infrastructure.
To many Americans this sounds all too true because they are having an incredibly tough time making ends meet. According to the Federal Reserve, Four in 10 adults in 2017 would either borrow, sell something, or not be able pay if faced with a $400 emergency expense. To those who are so highly stressed financially, the idea of paying for a costly program like Medicare for All sounds impossible.
We are the richest country in the history of the world, however, and certainly could afford vastly expanded and improved vital public services if we had the will. What stands in the way is runaway inequality. Our nations wealth has been hijacked by the super-rich, with plenty of aid from their paid-for politicians.
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Les Leopold - America's Biggest Lie: We Can't Afford Medicare for All (Original Post)
corbettkroehler
Apr 2019
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Uncle Joe
(58,459 posts)1. Kicked and recommended
Thanks for the thread corbettkroehler.
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BlueFlorida
(1,532 posts)2. commondreams sounds like
just dreams.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)3. Yes. The Urban Institute has more chops to analyze it.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden