One of the reasons Bernie Sanders’ Sun has risen - too Hillary Clinton’s has laid – is their differences over government-paid medical insurance. (Which, of course, most people yet telephone phone “healthcare”).
Bernie favors Medicare for All. This is becoming to a greater extent than pop with the self-described progressives inward the Democrat Party, too with the American far left. That’s because its leading advocates – e.g., Bernie – hope it volition hand everyone improve insurance coverage, terms less, too live simple. What’s non to like?
Contrast Hillary who favors fixing Obamacare, or at to the lowest degree has ever said she favors fixing Obamacare. Her major objection to Bernie’s thought is that Medicare for All would terms also much, too postulate fifty-fifty higher taxes to pay for it. But that’s perish a less pop policy pose partly because of the growing recognition that Obamacare already costs also much, too is in all likelihood non fixable fifty-fifty if Hillary says it is. So for the showtime fourth dimension inward to a greater extent than than 25 years, Hillary has lost the high Earth on medical insurance.
There’s a backstory here. At to the lowest degree 2 states convey already tried to blueprint single-payer plans for their residents. Both gave upwards because of high cost. In 2007, Connecticut nigh downwards its dry ground single-payer projection because it would convey terms to a greater extent than than the entire dry ground budget. And inward 2014, Bernie’s ain State of Vermont nigh downwards its projection for almost the same reason. But when convey facts mattered to progressive/leftist Democrats who dress themselves inward robes of social justice? I hold off that inward the adjacent national presidential campaign, Medicare for All volition live a prominent Democratic Party talking point.
So it’s of import to think that dorsum inward 2010, the Democratic Party had to deceive America to sell us Obamacare. Thanks to Professor Jonathan Gruber, nosotros learned that all along the progressive/leftist Democrats considered Americans “stupid” too easily fooled.
My opinion? None of the promises almost Medicare for All – to a greater extent than insurance coverage, for less cost, too elementary direction - last thoughtful analysis from experts other than the partisan progressive/leftist Democrats themselves.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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