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Retirement accounts are a real issue, but could be solved by having the top wealthiest shareholders pay out to the poorest shareholders until retirements are guaranteed. This could also be combined with Social Security reform that requires wealthy people to contribute more and extract less from the system.
Presumably many of the actual healthcare workers and some of the admin workers would still be needed in a nationalized system. The insurance agents and related admin can all get other jobs. No one dreams of being an insurance agent as a kid, these people would be free to pursue more meaningful and useful work.
None of these are insurmountable problems for a government that actually serves the people instead of money. This article is just prevarication to cover our current governments inaction.
plenty of people dream of causing as much harm to as many people as possible, and insurance agents are kinda close to that
If you're asking people who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, then of course the problems are insurmountable. I never claimed to have all of the answers, but I know for damn sure that it is a lie that there is no solution, as these "experts" seem to be implying.
Also, no need to be so fucking rude.
because they're propagandists for the epstein class
Oh shit, you figured it out. They also get paid by NASA to lie about the shape of the earth. And vaccines cause autism. The news is all lies and literally every single person on the planet is in on it. Journalists, publishers, professors at universities, EVERYBODY!!!
Thank God for random people on the internet that know to never trust the experts or read any articles because they already have all of the answers. Live in a world full of those people is awesome!
Wow you really think the nyt stands for something lmao
That's exactly what flat earth supporters say about NASA
Okay so the nyt is legit because the moon landing was real got it
You think you know more about Economics than literal Economic Professors and yet you can't even figure out how an analogy works
Which economics professor said medicare for all would abolish private insurance?
BERNIE FUCKING SANDERS
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/does-medicare-all-end-private-insurance-depends-which-candidate-you-n1005071
"Harris made a decision early in the race to run on single-payer Medicare for All, specifically a bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that would effectively replace existing private health insurance plans with a souped-up version of Medicare that covers more than the current program and requires no premiums or deductibles.
Asked by CNN's Jake Tapper at a town hall in January whether she really intended to ban people's existing private coverage in favor of this new Medicare plan, Harris didn't flinch."
This is almost 7 years old now and you still don't know this was a big part of the election? I'd say I'm shocked but I guess I shouldn't be because you probably didn't read any articles about the presidential candidates either