We Need Single Payer 0
Matt Ruben, writing at Philly dot com, considers the Republican war on the sick and infirm.
It’s all about the country club memberships. Here’s a bit:
So the private insurers, and the financial firms heavily invested in them, stand to make lots of money from 40 million new customers, as all of the nation’s seniors would remain in the private market at age 65 instead of being able to get Medicare. And you, your children and your grandchildren would subsidize those profits by paying more and more to the insurers during all those years after age 65.
To add insult to injury, the GOP plan also calls for more tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. So the vast majority of us, who really need Medicare, wouldn’t even get a tax break to help offset the increased costs.
It’s a scam, pure and simple, another front in a class war being waged by the relative few who get rich off their investments, on the majority of Americans who survive primarily by working for a living.
