Steve_American wrote:@Verv,
So, 2 negative replies,but not one fact cited to rebut her.
The $1.2T number is from a different video I posted. It comes from a very large paper, a large study.
The US spends now more of its GDP on healthcare than any other advanced nation, far more.
If we had Medicare for All the study showed that we would spend less and get far better care.
I do assume that there would be lines and waiting for a time while we trained more nurses, etc.
There is a huge unmet need now and the infrastructure to handle it is not sufficient to suddenly meet it.
It's like what would happen if starving people in a 3rd world nation suffering a drought AND we replied by giving them money and let McDonalds build and open Burger joints to feed them. But, this all my expectation. The videos never mention this possible problem.
But, you 2 attack it with zero facts. Can't you do better than that? Can't you think of or find any facts to backup your attacks?
They all discount her. I am used to that. Puerto Rican women socialists. All these asshole males with arrogance think they know more. Lol. Ocasio-Cortez defeated a high ranking Democratic establishment candidate with a lot more money than she had.
I used to be a community organizer and had to take trainings on dealing with how to deal with political campaigns. Her winning strategy was intelligent. Especially her messaging on her campaign. Here it is: (mind you she is appealing to New York City voters who are not Wonder bread Evangelists--that is not her district).
It covers who she was going for. And it wasn't the wealthy.
Let them keep discounting her and all the young socialists. With time? They will pressure. But? The problems are huge. She thinks she can win a lot of voters in the big red states and rural America. With the right messaging. She is young. Can be in politics a long time and who knows how well she does?
What makes me smile, is that socialists have been growing exponentially because the wishy washy liberals with corporate speeches in the six figures are not convincing the working class in many diverse cities all over the USA.
Both establishment candidates from both parties need to stop accepting bribe payoff money from corporate lobbyists and special interest groups. They need to change. If not? The answer are people like Ocasio-Cortez who won't accept the dough for covering for their sellout political proposals that never serve working class people.
But maybe the fools in the right think some billionaire pathological liar represents the working class for them? If they do? Got some serious growing up to do in politics.
Live and learn. The Billionaire liars are not going to do jack for you. Never will. But....they continue loving to pay out of pocket for health care, and go bankrupt and do this or that rather than face the fact that they need universal health care, and their kids need to go to college without some quarter of a million dollar debt.
What she and the other democratic socialists are proposing are not pie in the sky stuff. Many industrialized nations already did it and run those programs. They are doable.
But if you believe in billionaires, millionaires and liars extraordinaire? Got to learn the hard way. Stay sick, go bankrupt, have the corporate banks take over your house and foreclose, lose your IRA's and retirement, have your kids work low wages for many decades, bail out banks, have socialism for wall street investors and hedge fund managers and rawhide capitalism and death for the working class families.
Choose your destiny. It is up to you!