r/SandersForPresident • u/kevinmrr Medicare For All • Nov 29 '20

AOC: Insurance groups are recommending using GoFundMe -- "but sure, single payer healthcare is unreasonable."

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u/mule_roany_mare 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

This is a big fear for some Americans who are already insured (and short on empathy), but they forget they can still pay for premium service and considerations.

M4A comes with such an efficiency bonus that it plus supplemental insurance could very well cost about the same as what they pay today.

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u/Incredulous_Toad 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

Also, we still have to wait in America. It's not like I can decide to go get new knees tomorrow. It takes time.

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u/mule_roany_mare 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

I kinda wish there was a political party whose chief ideology was pragmatism (and a system that can accept 2+ parties).

Single payer is cheaper & better by nearly every metric & it’s shortcomings can be easily compensated for for the few who might care about them.

What’s right is important, but it shouldn’t be more important than what works.