Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) (shown above, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders, whom she’s endorses for 2020) complained this week about being provided with government-run health care services that presented her with too many “complex financial products.”
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The New York Democrat’s focus seemed to be the numerous options provided to members of Congress — prompting her to call for even more government control and fewer choices.
“Members of Congress also have to buy their plans off the exchange. They are Gold plans that are partially subsidized,” Ocasio-Cortez explained to her followers.
“That means I get to ‘choose’ [between] 66 complex financial products. This is absurd,” she went on. “No person should go without health care, [and] no one should go through this, either.”
It’s not very often consumers complain about having too many options.
We’d also argue that “66 complex financial products” are only complex for someone used to counting on their fingers and toes.
Members of Congress also have to buy their plans off the exchange. They are Gold plans that are partially subsidized.
That means I get to “choose” btwn 66 complex financial products.
This is absurd. No person should go without healthcare, &no one should go through this, either. pic.twitter.com/bIeD71CD5g
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 16, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez continued her rant about government health care by pushing the socialist dream program, Medicare for All.
“While I am VERY thankful to finally have health insurance, it is a moral outrage that it took me *getting elected to Congress* for that to happen,” Ocasio-Cortez claimed.
“The U.S. needs to become an advanced society. That includes establishing health care as a right to all people.”
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It didn’t take “getting elected to Congress” to get health insurance.
As a bartender or an intern for former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), she opted not to purchase a private plan, or something possibly offered by an employer. In other words, as a young person, she prioritized her needs and opted not to buy insurance. Which is everybody’s right.
“As someone who has now experienced many parts of the insurance spectrum (being uninsured, underinsured, and adequately insured) I don’t see how anyone can think our current health care system only needs a 10 percent improvement or a just few tweaks,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “We need #MedicareForAll.”
Think about that for a minute — and understand just how much AOC approves of being shackled and bound by government.
She’s so livid that too many choices are “complex,” in her mind, that she wants the government to decide for her. So she wants ease over freedom, in other words. And she wants to be subservient to the government because it’s simpler.
That’s what any good socialist believes.
.@AOC: I’m tired of this idea that #MedicareForAll and tuition free public colleges are some hand out from somebody else. Nobody else is giving us a damn thing. We build this on our own. pic.twitter.com/k8IL6Gfq8I
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) December 10, 2019
As The Hill reports, socialized medicine in the form of Medicare for All is “a deliberate effort to eliminate choice.”
The outlet goes on to explain why more choices, not less, are better financially for the people: “States are best positioned to establish platforms that promote all legal and viable coverage options. That’s because health care is local and best delivered in states, counties, and cities, where people reside. And innovation in coverage must adapt to the needs of a community. This is why federally mandated programs — such as Medicare for All — that are invariably one-size-fits-all regularly fail and become so expensive.”
Even former President Barack Obama, an architect of the so-called Affordable Care Act that limited choice, warned about the costs of a program that would eliminate them even further.
“Democrats should be ready to answer questions about how they will pay for an idea while making big promises to constituents,” he warned.
Medicare for All, meanwhile, has seen proposals cost anywhere between $28 and $32 trillion, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Ocasio-Cortez, no doubt, would argue the expense is worth not having to make “complex” decisions on one’s own.
A version of this piece originally appeared in ThePoliticalInsider.com; this article is used by permission.
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