Serious Question for Bernie Supporters about Healthcare [View all]

Let me preface this by saying. My husband supports Bernie, my cousins support Bernie. There is a lot of Bernie love in my family. Neither Bernie nor Biden were at the top of my list. So, that "I'm for Biden" thing is just a placeholder. I'm not asking to be mean, or incite riots, or anything like that. I just don't get it. Or rather, if I listen to my husband, the problem with the Biden plan is that the health insurance companies profit. It's "corporatist". Let me know if that's it.

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Why is Biden's plan so bad?

Is it because it's not free? (Medicare is not free. My mom paid gap insurance.)

I just finished reading the Biden plan. I think it makes health insurance EXTREMELY affordable for low income and middle income Americans.

It's capped at 8.5%.

Now, with the Bernie plan, taxes would have to go up. By how much? More or less than 8.5%?

No matter how you play it, healthcare is not going to be free. Even Medicaid recipients have co-pays. EITHER it's going to be paid to private insurance, or it's going to be paid to the federal government. But not free.

A Bernie supporter said that 10 million people won't have coverage. Why not?

What's interesting to me is that the Biden plan has the public option that everyone wanted in Obamacare.


I also have to ask, if the majority of Congress would not accept an 8% tax hike, how was Bernie going to make it happen?