Joining us today to discuss how the Dems should go about improving healthcare policy is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist and one of only two Independent Senators currently in Congress. He has compiled a booklet titled “The Health Care Crisis: Letters from Vermont and America” and speaks passionately on the behalf of real, meaningful, cost-effective healthcare reform in the U.S.
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Reporter Ellison? Rep takes on public option on House floor
We need more reps like Rep Ellison!!
Single Payer!! No co-pays No deductibles just a monthly payment based on income!! All Americans Must have affordable quality health care other wise we all will be chattel to the rich insurance companies!! Bankruptcy will be rampart in middle class America!!
Hi Senator Sanders – so glad to have your voice in the Senate. I wish that either I could vote in Vermont, or you were my Senator.
What’s your sense on the horse trading? Can we really get a progressive reform bill out of Conference? And at what point would you say “This is not good enough, and is only in fact worse; I’ll vote against this legislation.” ?
WELCOME SENATOR!!!
SO glad we have someone like yourself in the senate talking the real talk, the talk of our founders, you are among my very favorite senators and I ESPECIALLY enjoyed your smack dialoque with greenspan, demonstrating even to alan himself that the policies the he adopted had the obvious and predicted affect of redistributed middle class assets into the pockets of those so wealthy they can never spend those assets
when we reclaim those assets I really wish our law makers would STOP calling it “taxing the wealthy”
the republican adminstration claimed the tax give aways to the wealthy was an economic stimulous that would gather more then they cost
the reverse is true, not only did those investments NOT give a positive return, the return is on the far negative side SINCE those assets are never spent back into the economy, while the middle and lower class clearly spend it back into the economy
THERFORE
those revenues CANNOT be called “tax the wealthy”, they MUST be called “redirecting middle class assets taht were poorly invested, demosntrating a negative return”
framing those taxes the way they’re suppposed to be framed will go a VERY long way toward getting them passed
as you know, reagan actually raised taxes overall, he did not lowered them, he raised taxes more then any peace time president before him
in that tax increase he redistributed tax burden even further onto the middle and lower class
contrary to corporate marketing, even under the pre-reagan progressive tax model, the middle and lower class STILL payed a far greater percentage of wage then the wealthy SINCE they spend an exponentially greater portion of their salary, then the wealthy, which of course means that spending is re-taxed, to state, local, useage
if the wealthy got what they wanted, a real “flat tax” that would be fine but only if that flat tax burden included those expenditure taxes the middle and lower class far out pay then the wealthy
that’s a point nobody ever makes
Woops – thought this was a live blog with the Senator, but it ain’t. Anyways, stay cool Bernie – you rock on this issue.
Senator Sanders has more integrity than anyone in the Senate. He is honest and speaks his mind 100% of the time. This country would be so much better serviced, if the other 99 had just a little bit of Sanders committment in them.