Representative-Elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s vision of “Medicare-for-all” has resonated with the Left, but there are some issues to overcome first — or “one big riddle” as it were:
Medicare-for-all has one big riddle it needs to solve https://t.co/7pAFWRs0SX
— Vox (@voxdotcom) December 14, 2018
Vox took it in one direction, but there were others who started with the most obvious “riddle” first:
Let me guess. "We just pay for it" isn't going to work? https://t.co/DaPKahP1Ls
— Morry Christ-Mos ☃️ (@molratty) December 14, 2018
Yeah, there’s that:
More like trillions… https://t.co/VWXVXgllk9
— Barry Gadbois (@BarryGadbois) December 14, 2018
*Trillions of big riddles https://t.co/QU5xcEhpUE
— Meh-rry Christmas (@RightAllTheTime) December 14, 2018
How to raise the $40,000,000,000,000 to pay for it
— Patrick Meagher (@Squarzelfitz) December 14, 2018
(Insert riddle about how things cost money here)
— John Parshon (@JohnParshon) December 14, 2018
Trillions of “riddles,” and then some:
1st it's protect Obamacare because 8 million (forced to buy insurance) might lose plans. But now 160 million (83% like it) have to lose current coverage for progressive vision. The Left has no sense of irony https://t.co/qjIk31zXsB
— Harry Kazenoff (@h_kazenoff) December 14, 2018
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Hey, you can’t make a socialist omelet without breaking a few million eggs, right? *Eye roll*
You mean free insurance for all isn’t actually free?
— Nick (@nickloeser) December 14, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said it’s simple because you “just pay for it,” or something like that.
Maybe try solving Medicare as it is now, first. https://t.co/hGKHiagKLA
— Ay Chihuahua (@ARaised_Eyebrow) December 14, 2018
It's not a riddle, and medicare-for-all isn't a solution
— Stephen Mason (@Steveohmygoodne) December 14, 2018
That’s something progressives do not want to hear.
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