• TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    So…if you have criticisms of how Medicare is run, then how, pray tell, do you expect the government to run a universal healthcare program? Maybe we should be pressuring people to fix Medicare. Because if we can’t fix Medicare, we can’t run a Universal Healthcare program. Besides. Imagine the backlash of being told you have to give up your platinum tier health insurance plan from those who like their platinum tier health insurance plans? Oh wait. You don’t have to.. That already happened and creamed Obama in 2010 and 2014.

    As an aside, my favourite idea for fixing Medicare is to replace all government employee health insurance programs with Medicare coverage, and a mandate that the only healthcare you can receive is healthcare from Medicare, and if it’s available to you as a Government employee, it must be available to anyone else who uses Medicare. I figure that’ll change some tunes REAL fucking quick! Same with mandating Government employees, especially legislators and judges, use Social Security for their retirement plans. In my field, we call this ‘eating your own dogfood.’

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      8 months ago

      Why are you typing long replies to multiple of my comments within 15 minutes of each other on a 2 day old thread?

      Do you really want to get in multiple simultaneous conversations with me?

      • TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Reply to edit: Then block me. I’m not going to stop replying to your nonsense, so you might as well just block me. ;)