Sanders has been opposing the entrenched interests for ever. Is it any wonder that he's faced nothing but opposition?
Bankrupt the country??
Based on the reading I've been doing for years, Canada's single payer has a per capita cost that's about 2/3 of what we pay. Just the non-medically productive activities necessitated by our private pay insurance based HC system consume roughly 1/3 of our total HC expenditures (
Health Care Administrative Costs in the United States and Canada, 217 | Annals of Internal Medicine | American College of Physicians ). We should be able to realize similar savings. How does that bankrupt us?
The question is not the number of dollars but which dollar buckets do we use. Personally I think billionaires should be taxed out of existence. That degree of wealth concentration is bad news for maintenance of societies worth living in. The issue needs to be re-framed from typical sophmoric Ayn Rand-ish arguments; This is a useful intro and Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century tome is well worth reading:
To Tackle Inequality, We Need To Start Talking About Where Wealth Comes From | naked capitalism
Endless wars and an ever burgeoning MIC....that can bankrupt us but nobody seems to question it; So too can enormous tax breaks for the uber wealthy. Reference your history books for examples though it should be obvious on the face of it.
Continuing to ignore changes required by global climate change will get expensive.
If you think education is expensive, try the alternative. Even if Bernie gets elected and the Senate goes to the dems, that's when the real work of figuring out how far to go with this and that starts....the curve starts bending.
What's expensive is failing to recognize and respond sensibly to the signals of a changing world. That can get mighty expensive.
I'm off to do something productive.
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