Elizabeth Warren's proposal is actually a back-door way to make working
people pay more without realizing it. Right now, for those who get
health care through their employer, part of their compensation is their
health insurance cost. Say your health insurance costs $15,000, and you
make $50,000; your total compensation is actually $65,000. Under
Bernie's plan, your employer would have to give that $15,000 to you as
part of your salary, once Medicare for All was implemented. You might
pay (for example) $4,000 more per year in taxes, but you would be
GETTING $15,000 more per year - PLUS full medical, dental, and vision
coverage, with no premiums or co-pays. That's a huge increase.
But Warren wants to take
that money and use it to pay for her "Medicare for All". That means that
you would lose that $15,000! Ordinary workers will be footing the
bill, if they happen to have been getting health insurance through their
employer. It's a massive screw-job, carefully engineered to avoid
"raising taxes" while nonetheless sticking the working people of America
with most of the bill.
That Warren is willing to do that shows
just how much she's in the pockets of the elite.
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