American Mirror
August 10, 2018
America’s new socialist sweetheart Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems to think single-payer “Medicare for All” will extend the life expectancy in the U.S., and somehow save taxpayers lots of money.
Or she might be saying that under her vision of universal healthcare people would no longer have to pay for funerals.
Some estimate socialized medicine could cost more than $30 trillion, and Ocasio-Cortez appeared on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time to defend the staggering expense with a confusing ramble that only she can truly understand.
Host Chris Cuomo pressed Ocasio-Cortez on the “sticker shock,” and the 28-year-old presumed Congresswoman-elect attempted to flip the question into one about the costs of the current system.
“The thing that we need to realize is people talk about the sticker shock of Medicare for All, they do not talk about the sticker shock of the cost of our existing system,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“In a Koch Brothers-funded study … it shows that Medicare for All is much more, is much cheaper than the current system that we pay right now,” she said, adding that monthly insurance premiums paid by Americans is a “tax” to be tabulated into the equation, among other things.
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“And so that while it may not seem like we pay that tax on April 15th, we pay it every single month or we do pay at tax season if we don’t buy these plans off of the exchange,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“So we’re paying for this system, … Americans have the sticker shock of healthcare as it is, and we’re also not talking about why aren’t we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who died because they can’t afford access to healthcare,” she continued.
“That is part of the cost of our system. Why don’t we talk about reduced productivity because of people who need to go on disability, because of people…