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If you subsidize something you get more of it. The government can't even pay for my GI Bill for college. States can't pay their local fire and police departments. The nation is broke. This is the framework your going to be in favor of spending federal money on an entitlement for every citizen, or someone skilled enough to pretend to be a citizen of the nation?
Where did I say "every citizen" or anything even close to it?
I would like to give subsidies primarily to the people who are right above the Medicaid threshold. These are the people who would not be able to afford insurance otherwise, and who would be otherwise covered under a Medicaid expansion in any of the Dems proposals. I think giving people a small subsidy to help them pay for insurance themselves is preferable to giving them Medicaid for free.