I am 71 and had a heart attack in april...had quintruple bypass surgery...under Warren/Sanders communist/socialist plan I would have been left on the table to die...

her cost estimates of $52 trillion is off by a factor of 10...$520 trillion is real cost....

bureaucrats make all medical decisions...millions will be hired...doctors get an immediate 40% pay cut...

it is enslavement....

Do you see it as being like a draft of doctors and nurses and patients to not be able go elsewhere or be jailed as slaves? If you just mean that it will be paid for at the point of a hidden gun threatening jail if one does not pay up, OK.

Saturday Night Live joked about it. I'm not aware of any politicians joking about it. I'm kind of glad SNL joked about it b/c sometimes people will laugh and give thought to a joke about an idea but ignore the hard truth.

That they are even joking about numbers this big tells me that they're trying to persuade Americans that it is so absurd you shouldn't pay any attention - until your life gets destroyed by it. Politicians should not be even joking about things like this.

As SNL said, "When the numbers are this big they're just pretend."

What Warren said makes no sense. She seems to me to be either insane or an out-and-out sadist, who wants to destroy life and liberty.

The obligation (or not) to pay the national debt is very controversial among libertarians. If the people in Washington are not really our agents (Spooner's view) then why should we feel a duty to pay their bills?

If you hold the Constitution to be valid then there is arguably an obligation to pay. Section 4 of the 14th Amendment says the debt "shall not be questioned" -- which sounds like a nasty speech restriction rather than a promise to pay!

But in reality, I don't think it can ever be paid except by inflating it down to nothing. Or perhaps we'll get into a stupid war with Russia and China and repudiate specifically the bonds they hold. Only, what if they win?

Or a yoke.

like a chain around your neck...

Their “right” to welfare is essentially a philosophy which exposes that ability, intelligence, initiative, ambition are liabilities that impose on you special obligations and duties not possessed by others.

True. The problem is that it is just about as true as the real things she says.

$52 trillion and that doesn't just make you vomit? Anyone even thinking about voting for this type of sheer idiocy should be sent to go live in Cuba for a couple of years - and I don't mean at the US Embassy. (Of course we could use them as guinea pigs to see if the Cubans really were targeting our people there with sonic devices...)

What is frightening is that these are the people in charge of using violence to ensure adherence to the 'laws' they pass.

While I never liked Single Payer...
I am inclined...

For citizens, we have Free Emergency Medical! If tragedy strikes, we are covered with what our medical industry handles best: Trauma.

If it's lifestyle related... Not covered, and we allow insurance to DENY paying benefits (without expensive riders) for lifestyle diseases (like T2D, Obesity, etc).

Because those 2 items alone will bankrupt us in 40-50 years if we dont get a handle on it.

And the ONLY way to do that, is to STOP Paying for the progression we see today!

Literally talked to an obese elderly man who said "Yeah, but my medicines are cheap enough... So why change?" (And that's the problem)

what is missing from the discussion is the fact that medicare for all is slavery...of doctors and nurses and patients...in which everyone loses...

remember...you can vote yourself into socialism (slavery), but you have to shoot your way out of it...

This is a joke article on a satire website, not real quotes.

Besides that, Crazy Liz is so full of herself that she thinks running her mouth can make the impossible happen. So does her socialist debate competition.

Warren is so crazy she can't even talk coherently.

Yes. Hyperinflation has destroyed economies and then the nations that allowed it. Recent well known example Venezuela, before that Zimbabwe, before that the German second reich. We may agree agree that Trump has strong points but economic sense appears to play to support political sense.

The irony is that hyperinflation does precisely that.

However, don't be surprised if the next US President is a failed Canadian artist with a silly mustache who yells a lot.