Funds for Medicare for All already exist
dimanche 20 octobre 2019 à 02:00Proposing to fund the government expenditures for Medicare for All by cutting the military budget.
I think this proposal confusingly connects two good ideas.
We should adopt Medicare for All, also known as a universal national medical system, but we should reject the idea that this is an increase in expenses. If we get rid of the parasitic profitmaking medical system, this will save people in the US a large fraction of what they now spend on medical care and insurance. So it doesn't need to be "paid for"; what it needs is to rechannel part of the current spending.
We should cut the arms budget, because many of the arms being purchased are wasteful, or even dangerous to peace. But that is independent of how we reform medical care.