r/FluentInFinance • u/The-Lucky-Investor • 13d ago

“Medicare for All” would save the U.S $5.1 Trillion over 10 years Discussion/ Debate

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/30/easy-pay-something-costs-less-new-study-shows-medicare-all-would-save-us-51-trillion
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u/MoneyGrapefruit1000 13d ago

Is this similar to how the ACA was going to make healthcare affordable without making people change their doctors? Because that didn’t happen for most of us.

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u/SuperFrog4 13d ago

Ah but do you know why it didn’t happen?

Hint: Republicans in Congress stripped out provisions that would have provided that.

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u/timemoose 13d ago

Republicans did not control either the House or Senate at this time.

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u/SuperFrog4 13d ago

They did not but they had enough seats in the senate to block the legislation from passing if they wanted to. Back then you needed 60 senators to vote yea to pass legislation. The democrats had to rely on several moderate republicans to pass the legislation and becuase of this republicans were able to remove some important sections of the legislation in an effort to make the law as weak and ineffective as possible and hopefully because of that campaign in the 2012 election on that failure and win the house or senate and get rid of it entirely.

Just because you have a majority doesnt mean you can do what you want as has been seen by the current house.

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u/timemoose 13d ago

You need to google cloture.