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This will be the biggest adjustment to the COLA, which is part of the social security benefit for seniors and people with disabilities, in four decades.
away with the private insurance premiums you are now paying. for example. the average worker who makes 50 thousand a year is spending 13,000 on that worker the employer. the worker himself is spending $5,000. $18 those. now if our plan goes into effect that $13,000 private insurance premium disappears for the employer. it goes down. the amount of money the worker is now spending that 5,000 dollars goes down. we replace private insurance premiums with medicare premiums. the average middle class worker saves money. how do you convince some 80% of american whose do get healthcare from their employer, that it is worth rejiggering the system again? that seems to be the other challenge. people who get employer based private insurance are basically
his medicare for all health care bill. the bill that he and 16 democrats introduced this week. back with me are christopher metzler, jamall simmons and eric bowler and tara dowdell. miss tara, i m going to go with you first. i wish you were here on our set. i m going to go to you first. sanders this morning was asked about the cost, and you are a small business owner in addition to a lot of other things. we talk to you a lot about the costs of medicare. my republicans say, bernie wants to raise your taxes. they forget to conveniently to mention that bernie wants to waive insurance premiums that you re paying. we replace private insurance prem yums with medicare premiums. the average middle class worker saves money. does that sound sound to you, tara? well, i ll say this.
we replace private insurance premiums with medicare premiums. the average middle class worker saves money. well, i guess the question i have for you, though, is how do you convince some 80% of americans who do get health care from their employer that it is worth rejiggering the system again? that seems to be the other challenge here because as you know, people that get employer-based private insurance are basically happy with their insurance. the people that are not happy are those in that other 20%. well, yes and no. in fact, we are going to need a lot of discussion. again, i would hope that on nbc, cbs, abc, we can begin to have that kind of discussion in a serious way. but here is the truth. you know, gal llup does a lot o polling on this issue and what they find out is that the most popular health insurance program in this country is medicare. right. seniors feel really good. veterans administration ranks very high. in fact, private insurance