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Tom Steyer: ‘We need single-payer health care’
Posted on 1/1/26 at 10:54 am
Posted on 1/1/26 at 10:54 am
Woohoo 6-9 months to wait for a knee to get scoped incoming!
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Billionaire and California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer (D) on Tuesday said the United States needs a single-payer health care system.
“Bernie Sanders was right. We need single-payer health care,” Steyer said in a video shared on social media. “In 2019, I didn’t think we needed single-payer health care.”
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The California Democrat joined a crowded field for the governorship last month, four years after he said he had “no plans” to run for public office again. Other Democratic candidates include former Rep. Katie Porter (Calif.), Rep. Eric Swalwell
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(Calif.), former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
Polling released by Emerson College last month found Steyer with 4 percent support from potential California voters. The candidate who saw the most support — at 13 percent — was Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, followed by Swalwell.
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Posted on 1/1/26 at 10:56 am to Jbird
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Tom Steyer: ‘We need single-payer health care’
Because that has worked so well in other countries…
These Liberals keep pushing globalist ideas.
This post was edited on 1/1/26 at 10:57 am
Posted on 1/1/26 at 10:58 am to Jbird
Reparations guy too
Posted on 1/1/26 at 10:58 am to ShermanTxTiger
quote:So a mainstream Dem got it.
Reparations guy too
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:02 am to Placekicker
It works quite well for most young people, which is going to be all that matters in the end. No 35 year old getting crushed by essentially a second mortgage cares if 66 year olds have to wait 9 months to get their hip replaced. They care that they're getting ruthlessly nickel-and-dimed from every angle at all times in all areas of their life and that a trip to the doctor or the ER starts at $100/$1000 the instant you walk through the door, respectively.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:03 am to Jbird
Obviously paid for by just digging up more sea shells, right?!?…
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:04 am to Jbird
Here is a thought. Let’s institute this in California only and see how it goes.
If it’s needed Nationwide, let California be the National trial balloon and show us just how awesome it is.
Let’s give it 2-3 years to evaluate.
What do you figure will be the excuses used when it tanks harder than anything ever in California?
If it’s needed Nationwide, let California be the National trial balloon and show us just how awesome it is.
Let’s give it 2-3 years to evaluate.
What do you figure will be the excuses used when it tanks harder than anything ever in California?
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:17 am to Placekicker
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These Liberals keep pushing globalist ideas
I've heard it from people in the US Military and people from other Countries, the US has the most misunderstood health care system on the planet. Some called it barbaric, some called it Corporate greed, some called it incentivised to make Doctors millionaires. Big Pharma finances their R&D on the backs of Americans, while the Government knows it's a problem of its own making, by continuing to bury their heads in sand, or kick the can down the road leaving it for some other Politician to fix. People are eventually going to get tired of this and starting electing people who are willing to fix the problem, and a lot of people aren't going to like it, but you reap what you sow.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:23 am to Jbird
I don't know about a single-payer system, but we definitely could use something. What we have now isn't sustainable.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:23 am to riccoar
If they did it in CA only there would be a ton of deadbeats flowing in there. They would be begging for a bailout in months.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:26 am to OchoDedos
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People are eventually going to get tired of this and starting electing people who are willing to fix the problem
Those people are going to be very unpleasantly surprised by the fact that there IS no way to "fix" the problem.
There is only which poison you want to pick.
But this idea that government could "fix" healthcare if they only would is irresistible to populists.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:32 am to andwesway
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I don't know about a single-payer system, but we definitely could use something. What we have now isn't sustainable.
No system is sustainable without giving something significant up.
That might be basically telling everyone over a certain age they have to pay for health care services out of their own pocket or not get them at all and stop spending $100,000 for cancer treatment on 80 year old Paw Paw to keep him alive one more year, it might be that medical R&D essentially stops in its tracks because we no longer protect medication patents, it might be that we all pay half again as much in taxes to pay for a nationalized system, it might be that we stop paying for patients who are expensive to insure (which would then cause the number of procedures to decline significantly, which would then lead to the closure of many hospitals and clinics, making availability shrink,) etc., etc.
There's no way for health care to look just like it does now, but become less expensive. Not significantly so, anyway.
It's just not possible.
This post was edited on 1/1/26 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:33 am to Jbird
Odd timing considering all the gov funded healthcare scams rocking the country at the moment.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:41 am to Jbird
We need the person getting the health care to pay for it.
Period.
Period.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:41 am to Jbird
Steyer….hmmm
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:45 am to Jbird
The single-payer is the taxpayer so call it what it is: taxpayer-funded healthcare.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:51 am to Jbird
If you are fat, you should have to pay more.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:51 am to Jbird
Some of us are old enough to have predicted that the ACA was just a bridge to single payer, mostly because of the former's unsustainability. Kind of a mini-Cloward-Piven strategy.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:56 am to blueboy
The clowns that blew Barack the Benevolent and his save 2500 bullshite are eerily silent since it was shoved up America's arse.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:59 am to Jbird
Code for we completely broke it with ObamaCare and mass immigration, so give us the keys. It’s almost as if all that was done by design.
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