08-31-2018, 05:52 PM
Democrats want to "raid Medicare to pay for socialism"
this is a very stupid statement, hard to know where to start. the party that advocates for "raiding medicare" is the Republican party, who want to reduce entitlements so they can cut taxes.
More "fear the brown people who are eating your cookie" talk
I think he means that Dems want more money for Medicaid and/or Obamacare, which of course is health care for poor people or people at risk of losing private insurance. But I don't hear anybody saying rob Medicare to pay for that.
Medicare is in some ways a "socialist" program in that it is government -run; we all pay taxes to support a program that supports everyone over the age of 65 (rich and poor alike) and you can't "opt out" of paying for it. Where it differs is that the providers of the healthcare services do not work for the government, they are private, but they are reimbursed by the gov't at rates the gov't determines. So we have a socialized payment system operating within a free market system.
A more "socialist" system is Social Security. The capitalist version is the 401K.
this is a very stupid statement, hard to know where to start. the party that advocates for "raiding medicare" is the Republican party, who want to reduce entitlements so they can cut taxes.
More "fear the brown people who are eating your cookie" talk
I think he means that Dems want more money for Medicaid and/or Obamacare, which of course is health care for poor people or people at risk of losing private insurance. But I don't hear anybody saying rob Medicare to pay for that.
Medicare is in some ways a "socialist" program in that it is government -run; we all pay taxes to support a program that supports everyone over the age of 65 (rich and poor alike) and you can't "opt out" of paying for it. Where it differs is that the providers of the healthcare services do not work for the government, they are private, but they are reimbursed by the gov't at rates the gov't determines. So we have a socialized payment system operating within a free market system.
A more "socialist" system is Social Security. The capitalist version is the 401K.