| − | Medicare for All originated as item 6 in the [[far left]] [[Occupy Wall Street]]<ref>Occupy Wall Street were organized groups of protesters who littered city parks and streets across the nation with human waste while protesting [[capitalism]] and were denied use of restrooms by businesses they were seeking to destroy.</ref> list of demands. It reads: {{Quotebox|"Medicare for all American citizens or another [[single-payer]] healthcare system, adjusted by a means test (i.e. citizens who can afford it may opt-out and pay their own health insurance or opt-in and pay a means tested premium). The Medicaid program, fraught with corruption and fraud, will be eliminated except for the purpose of providing emergency room care to [[indigent]] [[non-citizen]]s who will not be covered by the single-payer program."}} | + | Medicare for All originated as item 6 in the [[far left]] [[Occupy Wall Street]]<ref>Occupy Wall Street was organized groups of protesters who littered city parks and streets across the nation with human waste while protesting [[capitalism]] and were denied use of restrooms by businesses they were seeking to destroy.</ref> list of demands. It reads: {{Quotebox|"Medicare for all American citizens or another [[single-payer]] healthcare system, adjusted by a means test (i.e. citizens who can afford it may opt-out and pay their own health insurance or opt-in and pay a means-tested premium). The Medicaid program, fraught with corruption and fraud, will be eliminated except for the purpose of providing emergency room care to [[indigent]] [[non-citizen]]s who will not be covered by the single-payer program."}} |
| | [[Gross Domestic Product]] is the aggregate sum total of every individual and business's [[Gross income]], which in 2019 amounted to $19 Trillion; Rep. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]], Sen. [[Bernie Sanders]], and House Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]]'s proposal for Medicare for All is estimated to cost $32 Trillion. | | [[Gross Domestic Product]] is the aggregate sum total of every individual and business's [[Gross income]], which in 2019 amounted to $19 Trillion; Rep. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]], Sen. [[Bernie Sanders]], and House Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]]'s proposal for Medicare for All is estimated to cost $32 Trillion. |
| − | To be fair, some Democrats did backaway from the [[communist]] plot to destroy America. <ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/house-democratic-sponsorship-of-medicare-for-all-has-fallen</ref> Notably Rep. [[Jim Clyburn]], D-S.C., the House Majority Whip; Rep. [[Anna Eshoo]], D-Calif., chairwoman of the Energy and Commerce's Health Subcommittee; and Rep. [[John Yarmuth]], D-Ky., chairman of the House Budget Committee. So called "mainstream" Democrats are said to oppose the communist takeover of healthcare,<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/06/its-not-just-republicans-mainstream-senate-democrats-oppose-medicare-for-all/</ref> however it should be noted many of the same Democrat Senators voted for forced collectivization under Obamacare. | + | To be fair, some Democrats did back away from the [[communist]] plot to destroy America. <ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/house-democratic-sponsorship-of-medicare-for-all-has-fallen</ref> Notably Rep. [[Jim Clyburn]], D-S.C., the House Majority Whip; Rep. [[Anna Eshoo]], D-Calif., chairwoman of the Energy and Commerce's Health Subcommittee; and Rep. [[John Yarmuth]], D-Ky., chairman of the House Budget Committee. So-called "mainstream" Democrats are said to oppose the communist takeover of healthcare,<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/06/its-not-just-republicans-mainstream-senate-democrats-oppose-medicare-for-all/</ref> however it should be noted many of the same Democrat Senators voted for forced collectivization under Obamacare. |