1) it's was an expansion of medicaid, not medicare. they're different. 2) expansion of medicaid isn't necessarily the obvious solution. i'm not entirely sure how you could implement it given the current healthcare system. the other option would be to just increase the tax penalty. while senator black is not lying, she's also not stating the reason people choose to take the tax penalty instead of buying insurance (it's way cheaper to get the tax penalty). thus, if you just increased the tax penalty to a rate comparable to insurance, people would buy insurance and rates would go down for everyone (this is likely what hillary would have done).

Bernie's the man, but "medicare for all" is older than him may the Bernie be with u all

read her plan for 2016. it's probably the direction she would have gone. her 90's plan is less likely the direction she would have gone. just listen to the debates between clinton/bernie & compare their plans.

+rustydog0329 You'd still be a terrible parent to let your child get sick and die if it is easy for you to prevent it. Furthermore, that's not what most people do despite the ridiculous caricature of them you have. Most people have jobs working for employers or are raising the nation's families at home. You have a really misguided idea of what the vast majority of Americans live like.

rustydog0329​​​ in this case, the truth isn't somewhere in the middle because I didn't say that all people are good and virtuous and hardworking. I said most, not all - but most people have jobs and raise families, which is true. The flip side would be that most do not have jobs and raise families, which is obviously false. The truth is not always in the middle between two sides.

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City of Angeles Thank you.

ALEX THOMAS ESCALANTE the rich are Christian too. ..lol, they just can't afford to care.

Do you really have to be a religious person to do good and care about your fellow human being?

No, but it was refreshing for a change to actually hear a Christian publicly say what she did.

NG exactly right.

You forget the hypochondriacs. You forget the fact that if healthcare was covered, you could then charge whatever you wanted because who cares... government will just pass the bill to the people..... This is a very old scam.....

You understand that hypochondriacs are not that much of a problem, you pay for medical care with your taxes - it is not free and no one is getting a bill, and right now companies charge whatever they want and make money from denying people the care they need. We are one of the few modernized nations that cannot get universal medical care because.....freedom....handouts...Murica! And, now "hypochondriacs!".

@@meganh9460 The fact that a single entity (the government) is paying for people's treatment, can in many ways, lower the costs, as they have have enormous bargaining power. Thats partly how public health systems in other OECD nations keep costs down.

@@liamcollins9183 And what is stopping the health care systems from charging whatever they would like at that point because the government doesn't really pay for anything, they just pass the bill. The healthcare system is the only system in the world where I buy something... then find out the cost. I really don't want to give that power to the government which is typically known for their rampant over spending. The only 'fair' way, is to pay for yourself. That is the reality. Otherwise, you are spreading out the costs to everyone because you need the healthy to pay for the sick. So what happens when the kale eating, smoothie drinking bicyclist grows tired of paying higher insurance for the guy who never exercised and drinks nothing but soda and smokes.

Because it's a person's right to forcefully take money from me to pay for their health needs? Disgusting.

Malibu D that is by far the most intelligent comment i have read on here for 2 months..please keep it up!

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Bluesteel what's disgusting is selfish, mean people who don't care about the poor and sick.

Marshmallow920 As s Democrat I salute you.

In science, math and reading the US ranked number 25 of all the countries. Source: CNN December 6, 2016. A person that speaks two languages is called bilingual. A person that speaks three languages is called trilingual. A person that speaks one language is called American.

It's common sense to forcefully steal money from other's to pay for your health needs? Well your version of common sense is something I will fight to the DEATH.

Wow yeah you are right. 53% of total health care in America is privatized, with only 32% that is public. The next country with the highest privatized health care total is Germany with 11%. All other country stats are negligible.

Bluesteel, as a citizen with private health insurance, I am subsidizing health care for the uninsured. Approximately $30 a month of my premiums go to cover the uninsured. Everybody who can afford it should have some skin in the game. Even if its 10 a month. If a young kid can afford a smartphone, then they can damn well afford to pay some for their health care.

Bluesteel it's called Gerneral Health Care not death.

It was a talking point given to her by Republican handlers. The problem with the system is that there are still some people being left behind, so the solution is to repeal it and leave everyone behind...?

money is what's wrong with politics: big BIG money

+Liberals are Hating Fascist Love your name and it's true - Liberals do hate fascists.

So you are saying that the ACA is a 'failure' that saved lots of lives? A 'failure' that the vast majority of Americans want to keep?

Curmudgeon Well i think British liberals were screaming in the 1930s fascism means war. By the way how is your population doing in Tennessee? Terrifying isn't it. Once you realized ACA would be repealed, well then you got nothing. I work wish you all the best in Tennessee. Me personally, I believe, God forbid it is repealed, you will be given a great gift. You will be given a chance to see what it means when you have nothing to see to your health. Selfishness is evil my friend. Not only that all your people will really be given a chance to see what it's like to work for low wages. You think unions are a bad thing. Well the repeal of Obamacare is just the beginning. I wish you all the best.

+Ryan Zinna I'm not sure if you're replying to the right person. When I responded to Liberals are Hating Fascism, I meant that he/she was being a dick if they thought the Trump administrations' repeal of the ACA would benefit them in any way, especially if they thought that Trump had any intention of giving them a halfway decent replacement. Big Pharma and the insurance companies have hijacked this administration into forcing through a system which will impoverish the most vulnerable and cause suffering to millions, all for the mighty dollar. Look forward to many more medical bankruptcies.

Republicans call it "Obamacare" to try to kill it, but it's real name is the "ACA"; Affordable Care Act. It's surprising the number of people who still don't know that and love the ACA while wanting Obamacare repealed.

How do you defend against this? The estabalishment (I won't blame democrats because establishment republicans wanted it too) wanted to get their hands on heath care. They wanted too for years. Buys good will, and they can finally tax a billion dollar industry. All these democrats who are not bitching about losing their coverage, are falling exactly into the establishment hands. Give them something they don't/can't want to live without. Now, suddenly its their right to force healthy people to pay for sick.....

+paul maclean they look at it as "but i get taxed for other people!!" and then when you telling the how small that tax is they say "but i get taxed!" that is all that they care about until they need emergency surgery or get a near deadly or deadly disease this is how they will think... even when you tell them that they would end up saving money by getting taxed instead of paying for an individual healthcare plan they still say "but i get taxed" it just shows how single minded they are...

+Octavius Chan I thin its quite telling that someone who's lecturing me on compassion also wants someone to shoot me or my child or my friends with a super bug so they can die infront of me. Sounds super compassionate of you. As I have stated many times. Want to fight high prices? Want to fight the issue of large amount of preventable deaths that happen in our health care system? Sure Ill be fighting with you. But you are not, you are looing for someone else to pay. I believe firmly that if you tell the government and the health care industry that the American people will pay the bill, the bill will "suddenly" get larger. Let me ask you, oh compassionate one, do you own a car? Or maybe a house? Why? Why would you decide to own a house or a car instead of downsizing? DO you not know people are dying out there and could really use your money? Reminds me of what we did in Africa. Bleeding hearts were crying out, Africans having 10 kids and only 2 are living to adulthood. So what did we do? We sent them aid and guess what? All 10 kids survived to adulthood to have 10 kids of their own. SO guess what? They needed more aid and if we don't give it to them then we are horrible people who are just trying to save a few extra bucks. I would argue its you who needs compassion. BTW you are dumb to think I am selfish enough to think an illness would change my mind. The policy sucks but ya sounds great when I get sick because someone else can pay. I know in your mind that makes sense, because you are selfish.

+Paul MacLean Whats so hard to understand that the government has never streamlined anything? You want the government involved in healthcare? Seriously? You go bankrupt over the high price of healthcare. Want to fight that? Sure, you might actually accomplish something. Want to find someone to pay for it? Then you are a thief. What the fuck is so hard to understand? My day will come. I won't become like the selfish assholes who hated obamacare when they were healthy and loved it when they were sick. Still doesn't change my mind. YOu assume I don't save for it lol. But, thats AMerica now.

Megan H in every country that has singlepayer when they switched to it their prices dropped...

ZombieBunnyPosse she's the minority

Song Maxine - but there is still no universal healthcare in sight.

She "epitomizes Christian values" when she's hardly affected? As a public school teacher her health insurance is paid for by local taxes. Eventually the part of the premiums that school employees must pay will increase, she'll end up with less take home income, and you can bet teachers will go on strike for higher pay. When she stands in front of those striking teachers pleading with them not to strike and allow for more and more to be taken out of her salary to pay for the less fortunate and tells the school administration to start immediately subtracting from her paycheck - then it can be said that "she epitomizes Christian values." Ever look at the tax returns of such model bleeding heart politicians like Pres. Obama before he became a public figure or VP Joe Biden? Obama was making hundreds of thousands of dollars as a partner in a law firm, but never contributed even one grand until he became a state legislator. And Biden till today never gives more than a grand which is far less than one percent of his earnings. Liberals seem to have a tradition of being bleeding hearts with other people's money but turn conservative with their own. Just like they never send their kids to public schools.

I totally agree with her, except that these are not exclusively christian values, they are moral and ethical values, regardless of one's religion, and usually practiced by western Social Democracies. Religion is not relevant.

VectorPlexus I agree with you 100%. It's because she mentioned that she was a Christian and many self professed "Christians" voted against Christian values.

hellojam100 ummmmmm no... the republican way is for all of is to work and earn money to pay for our own healthcare in a free market. i am happy to support those who cannot work. i am never happy to pay for those who won't. for those who will buy a cell phone before they insurance.

If you get cancer or have a pre-existing condition, no insurance company will even offer their service to you. There are plenty of people that work but can't afford the $30,000-$40,000 cost of chemotherapy or parkinson's medication or weekly kidney dialysis. You're an absolute moron if you think buying a cell phone plan is equivalent to getting access to healthcare.

lovetoridehard Misfortune is not equivalent to laziness. Would you help someone to their feet who has fallen or accuse them of lazing around on the floor? :-)

WELL GIVE THIS FUCKEN LAND BACK TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS

@wolfman02 PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING WELL ARE THE MOST WICKED ASS MOTHA FUCKAS IN THE WORLD

Russian President Trump she was misleading when she threw out that 20 million statistic, but the teacher called her out on that BS. The ACA/Obamacare works just fine in Blue states and no one saw saw an up tic this year in their payment that only happen in Red States because they didn't expand medicare cuz the were being political and you see when the teacher debucked that BS The Rep didn't want to talk anymore. A lot of people are going to be fucked up when the insurance company starts dropping people, and this clip just showed everyone that this just doesn't effect minorities.

AND it was their decision to make. pay a fine and get absolutely noting. Or spend money on health insurance...hmmmmm......

You're wrong, they can still go to the ER, which is much more expensive.

How am I wrong? Sure they can use the ER, but my point is that those people who she used as evidence wouldn't pay for health care no matter what the cost.

Not to mention that her stats are misleading. You have folks that have expanded coverage not through the exchange only. People have better coverage via employer insurance policies and medicaid as well. Employers with 50 employees or more have to provide coverage for employees working 30 hours or more. If they don't, they get fined and if they try to reduce employees hours they get fined. There were many people who were poor but not poor enough to qualify for medicaid, especially if they were single. It would be more costly to kick people off of insurance than to keep them on it. If these people lose insurance they may get too sick to work, which isn't productive for society. Also the exchange allows for further innovation, because their are folks who left their 9 to 5 jobs, to start businesses. These people wouldn't have done that without the creation of the ACA. There are a host of other benefits. But this paragraph is too long already.

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If you see a POLITICIAN in TENNESSEE LIPS MOVING THAN YOU KNOW THEY ARE CORRUPT.

tnjay87 Thank you. They say that mandatory health insurance is unconstitutional yet I still have to pay a mandatory tax out of my paycheck to help poorer people. I'd rather us all pay taxes that go towards universal healthcare so that my neighbor doesn't have to cry everytime they need to go to the doctor because it is expensive. If you've ever lived it, it makes sense. These people are just privileged and apathetic. Let the rich take care of only themselves is how they think. Yet the poor still pay taxes like everyone else to take care of things that the rich benefit from.

+charnae young Yes, Black is a conservative lying and spinning to make herself richer by making her rich insurance company bribers, errr, "donaters", even richer. She knows she's lying and I hope she enjoys her time in hell. It's not the average American's fault that health care costs an insane amount of money and you could be denied health insurance coverage if you were actually going to use it before the ACA. If we can't, as a country, give all of our citizens access to be the healthiest that they can be, then why have any rights at all? Do you think a billionaire would choose his money over his health? To think that an entire family could be ruined for life because a 5-year-old in that family has cancer, which is what Black supports, in the name of corporate profits is despicable beyond words.

Paul Copland americans being behind in major Systems also shows in their election system. americans struggle to reform it self and put tradition that serves no purpose anymore away. the electoral College with the state-by-state System is a relict of the past unfit for the 21st century democracy. another BIG flaw of the American way of life us their gun law. no other western democracy has so many killed or injured by gun voilence. America needs a change in perspective and mentality for their own sake. It's quiet pathetic to watch how they have a president not backed by the majority of voters, want to get rid of public health care and continue to have homemade massacres and thousands over thousands of dead ppl because everybody can have guns as easy ad possible.

32shumble I agree. I always thought Christians were the greedest most psychotic people on the planet because they spoke out against labor unions, single payer, and free education and job training. Is my thought process correct?

ok What would you do Nick !

+C Graves I would fix Obama care instead of repealing it with nothing duh.

Nicolas Mendez you do know he's gonna replace it with something better than Obama care right?

+NamesR4Losers fml well I've been waiting.

Nicolas Mendez he's barely been in office for a month. Stuff doesnt happen right away. Its called patience, a good quality to have. As a matter of fact he should be talking about his plan (or has) today, or tomorrow

I'm one of the people who paid the fine. I had list my job and it took awhile to get another one. ACA is not bad, that fine tacked onto it was.

Good point. Thing to remember about Republican leadership is that they tell you what they want you to know.

Excellant

And the good moral Christian leader Trump continues to gain support from 80% of the Evangelists in the USA.

That's assuming they have a clue who Jesus is.

@@Longtack55 They wern't burning CROSSES on black people's front lawns for nothin'.

You have been blessed

TC Just TC Health insurance companies get to make less profit from Obama care, aka ACA, by limiting or prohibiting them from charging exploitive insurance fees as well as limiting their or in some cases completely negating their ability to avoid insurance claims.

TC Just TC... the large tax cuts for corporations and the 1% were what was funding the ACA and many other programs... the tariff bailout of $12B, all the dog & pony shows DJT Sr is putting on are not in the "budget" and now the GOP will begin to "borrow" funds from Medicare & SS...

Sorry, everything about Barry was a lie.

Germany is great country

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+Rob R, Excellent comment....right on the money! :)

I know! It is our RIGHT to forcefully take as much money as we need to pay for our health costs.

Pamm Meee Agreed. Are you learning from your hated European friends?