Bloomberg: Don't vote for Sanders & Trump, they're using you

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Not sure how this is a counterpoint. The US, on average, pays almost twice as much, proportional to the population, on healthcare. The US is on the bottom-end of first-world countries as far as life expectancy goes, and there isn't a much better indication of healthcare quality.

Keep in mind that people in the UK can opt for private healthcare if they wish, and that our healthcare system is being undermined by the Tory government and has been since 2010; things could be better. Also keep in mind that anybody here can see a general practitioner in a reasonable time frame, without paying, which appropriately directs people regardless of profit and improves prevention of illness. We also have subsidised medication and regulated prices, meaning that we aren't ripped off by medical monopolies with no interest in society.

Ultimately, private healthcare means that sociopaths who only care about profits will be in charge of your care. There's a reason that countries with national healthcare systems have a higher life expectancy and lower cost of healthcare. Americans are being charged a tax to subsidise the profits of healthcare companies.

The Plan Would Be Fully Paid For By:

A 6.2 percent income-based health care premium paid by employers.
Revenue raised: $630 billion per year.
A 2.2 percent income-based premium paid by households.
Revenue raised: $210 billion per year.This year, a family of four taking the standard deduction can have income up to $28,800 and not pay this tax under this plan.

A family of four making $50,000 a year taking the standard deduction would only pay $466 this year.
Progressive income tax rates.
Revenue raised: $110 billion a year.Under this plan the marginal income tax rate would be:

37 percent on income between $250,000 and $500,000.
43 percent on income between $500,000 and $2 million.
48 percent on income between $2 million and $10 million. (In 2013, only 113,000 households, the top 0.08 percent of taxpayers, had income between $2 million and $10 million.)
52 percent on income above $10 million. (In 2013, only 13,000 households, just 0.01 percent of taxpayers, had income exceeding $10 million.)
Taxing capital gains and dividends the same as income from work.
Revenue raised: $92 billion per year.Warren Buffett, the second wealthiest American in the country, has said that he pays a lower effective tax rate than his secretary. The reason is that he receives most of his income from capital gains and dividends, which are taxed at a much lower rate than income from work. This plan will end the special tax break for capital gains and dividends on household income above $250,000.
Limit tax deductions for rich.
Revenue raised: $15 billion per year. Under Bernie’s plan, households making over $250,000 would no longer be able to save more than 28 cents in taxes from every dollar in tax deductions. This limit would replace more complicated and less effective limits on tax breaks for the rich including the AMT, the personal exemption phase-out and the limit on itemized deductions.
The Responsible Estate Tax.
Revenue raised: $21 billion per year.This provision would tax the estates of the wealthiest 0.3 percent (three-tenths of 1 percent) of Americans who inherit over $3.5 million at progressive rates and close loopholes in the estate tax.
Savings from health tax expenditures.
Revenue raised: $310 billion per year. Several tax breaks that subsidize health care (health-related “tax expenditures”) would become obsolete and disappear under a single-payer health care system, saving $310 billion per year.

Most importantly, health care provided by employers is compensation that is not subject to payroll taxes or income taxes under current law. This is a significant tax break that would effectively disappear under this plan because all Americans would receive health care through the new single-payer program instead of employer-based health care.

Oh, and by the way. Single payer is just a better version of Obamacare. Nothing scary about it.

This was part of Michael Bloomberg's commencement speech at University of Michigan.

He went on to say anyone who is willing to go the length to promise you the stuff that Sanders and Trump have, they are far more dangerous than the rest of the politicians.
Yes he really thinks both Trump and Sanders are purposely resorting to this in order to get elected because they intentions that they don't want voters to know about.

Bloomberg is the previous progressive mayor of NYC, who was widely beloved by the public and country as a whole.
Though hated by his own party the GOP for being progressive.
http://time.com/4313436/michael-bloombe ... e-sanders/

Sander's taxes are a problem.

There are tens of millions of Democrat-leaning union pensioners like my mom.

She's retired and gets "free health care" from the employer she retired at. She still works though.

These voters most likely won't like his new health care taxes. Why should they?

Also, there are tens of millions of poor/elderly people who get it 100% free now through Medicaid and Obamacare subsidies. So, these tens of millions of Democrat-leaning voters most likely won't like his taxes. Why should they?