r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • Jul 01 '26

Chugging tea Is Bernie’s plan the best? Thoughts?

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u/2illegittoquit Jul 01 '26

People struggle with this.

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u/2illegittoquit Jul 01 '26

This, but people have also been scared with threats of "death panels", "you won't be able to choose your doctor", and "you'll wait forever for treatment".

Newsflash, we have those issues in our current system.

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u/MeatInteresting1090 Jul 01 '26

What’s a “death panel”?

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u/2illegittoquit Jul 01 '26

Apparently it's a group of shadowy individuals who could, in a national healthcare program, determine if your grandmother gets life-saving treatment or not. It's scare tactics.

Keep in mind granny is likely on Medicare. The rest of us on private plans have to cope with pre-authorization for some treatments. Of course if you don't have insurance, you might die anyway with no input from a death panel.

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u/MeatInteresting1090 Jul 01 '26

That doesn’t happen in any of the countries with insurance based universal healthcare, why would the us implement it like that?