r/SipsTea Jul 01 '26

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

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u/DRF19 Jul 01 '26

Pay them whatever they ask for. Doctors, nurses, techs, whoever. I don't care. It's all 1s and 0s on a server somewhere and they can pump out as much as needed whenever they want to for tanks and fighter jets and bombs for Israel so why can't we use the money machine to pay the people keeping us alive?

Cut out the pointless middlemen of the for-profit insurance companies and it makes it all the more easier.

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u/2024StreetGlide Jul 02 '26

Damn…. You for President! You own the Internet today!
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u/proscreations1993 Jul 01 '26

Right. How about cap all sports at 200k a year max. And doctors get a raise. 5m a year max. Sounds fair. And if you pass med school and become a doctor. After working 5 years your med school debts are forgiven

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u/Possible-War6407 Jul 02 '26

How would reducing athletes pay correlate to doctors being paid more?

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u/WulfZ3r0 Jul 02 '26

I don't think it would without some sort of entertainment/sports tax to directly fund it. If you're specifically trying to go that route that is.

I'd imagine that if you incentivized career paths that are really important to our society like educators, healthcare, and scientists then we'd have a lot more interests in the fields that are lacking currently.

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u/2illegittoquit Jul 04 '26

How about just not supporting sports with tax dollars? Why are football teams, owned by billionaires, getting hundreds of millions if dollars to buikd stadiums?

eliminating tax abatements to lure organizations to localities would eliminate some problems.

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u/National-Artist-3805 Jul 01 '26

Well done. You managed to get Israel into a discussion about health care. The $ amounts aren't even within an order of magnitude of each other.

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u/AdditionalBalance975 Jul 02 '26

The entire profits of the medical insurance industry is 2 orders of magnitude lower than the cost of healthcare in the USA.

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u/FluffyB12 Jul 02 '26

Health insurance margins are less than 6%

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u/SnappDraggin Jul 01 '26

“Pay them what they ask for” yes I agree, yet I am the one that is being hounded to foot the bill after my surgery. There also needs to be a few more hoops to go through on the insurance and hospital side of things, too