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| + | [[File:Medicare for All.png|right|250px|thumb|The chart brings into perspective the comparative cost of Medicare for All.]] | ||
'''Medicare for All''' is item 6 in the [[far left]] [[Occupy Wall Street]] 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''' is item 6 in the [[far left]] [[Occupy Wall Street]] 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. | ||
[[Category:Socialism]] | [[Category:Socialism]] | ||
Revision as of 00:27, February 3, 2019
Medicare for All is item 6 in the far left Occupy Wall Street list of demands. It reads:
"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-citizens 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.