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The Bob Cesca Show: Hey Whah Happun

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danarchy9/12/2017 8:35:09 pm PDT

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹

We already run socialised medical systems (VA, military medical) and single-payer systems (Tricare/CHAMPUS, Medicare).

I don’t claim to be a good slogan writer. It would seem to me that “going bankrupt” is more important to people than “slightly higher taxes,” but maybe that’s just me. Maybe there has been too much conservative propaganda for so long that even liberals are willing to throw in the towel without trying.

The real problem is that the Federal government already spends more on medicaid, medicare, and VA per capita than the Canadian government does to provide healthcare for all. That is per capita not for just the people covered by them. The problem is these programs are not allowed to negotiate prices. We subsidize pharmaceutical costs for the rest of the world the way we subsidize military expenditure for much of the world.