Trumpcare: Making America Healthy Again

[old_gregg]

fyi, a medicare for all bill was proposed but senate dems unanimous voted against it:

http://freebeacon.com/issues/senate-...-medicare-all/

[Walter Sobchak]

fyi, a medicare for all bill was proposed but senate dems unanimous voted against it:

http://freebeacon.com/issues/senate-...-medicare-all/

yep.

The real obstacle may be the Democrats. As Max Fine, last surviving member of John F. Kennedy’s Medicare task force, recently told the Intercept, “Single payer is the only real answer and some day I believe the Republicans will leap ahead of the Democrats and lead in its enactment,” he speculated, “just as did Bismarck in Germany and David Lloyd George and Churchill in the UK.” For now, an invigorating civil war is raging within the Democrats with the National Nurses Union, the savvy practitioner-wonks of the Physicians for a National Health Program, and thousands of everyday Americans shouting at their congressional reps at town hall meetings are clamoring for single-payer against the party’s donor base of horrified Big Pharma executives and affluent doctors.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

LOLz.

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[SCcoug]

Pretty funny twitter feed.

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[Uncle Ted]

Looks like the author gives our very own Topper and Uncle Ted a shout out:

I don’t want to oversell the friction-free smoothness of the GOP’s conversion to socialized healthcare. Our funny country will always have a cohort of InfoWars ooga-boogas, embittered anesthesiologists and Hayekian fundies for whom universal healthcare is a totalitarian jackboot. (But, and not to be a jerk, it’s worth remembering that Hayek himself supported the socialized healthcare of Western Europe in one of his most reasonable passages from the Road to Serfdom.)


So even if there is some banshee GOP resistance at first, universal Medicare will swiftly become about as controversial as our government-run fire departments. Such, after all, was the trajectory of Medicare half a century ago. You read it here first, people: Within five years, the American Right will happily embrace socialized medicine.

When did the National Review merge with InfoWars? Does PAC know?

I am all for single payer. Who wouldn't be for youngsters paying for your healthcare?... Well, other than the youngsters?

[frank ryan]

Trump is threatening to withhold Obamacare insurance reimbursements to make the system crash.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-w...-repeal-passes

[BlueK]

Apparently there's lots of talk on cable news today around single payer. I don't see how anything like that could pass right now, but somehow to me it seems like it would be more likely for Trump to sign it than for there to be enough votes in the House and Senate to pass it. I don't think Trump cares other than having some accomplishment attached to his name.

Another thing I've thought about related to the healthcare issue is is how much we hear it said that the GOP had 7 years to think about "repeal and replace" but can't do it now that they're in power. The problem with that is it's incorrect about the replace part. I don't remember any talk during that time from Republicans on an alternative. It was always just about making a political statement by voting to repeal and that's it. That's why they have struggled now to come up with any replacement plan. It was never part of the thought process.

[Uncle Ted]

Apparently there's lots of talk on cable news today around single payer. I don't see how anything like that could pass right now, but somehow to me it seems like it would be more likely for Trump to sign it than for there to be enough votes in the House and Senate to pass it. I don't think Trump cares other than having some accomplishment attached to his name.

Another thing I've thought about related to the healthcare issue is is how much we hear it said that the GOP had 7 years to think about "repeal and replace" but can't do it now that they're in power. The problem with that is it's incorrect about the replace part. I don't remember any talk during that time from Republicans on an alternative. It was always just about making a political statement by voting to repeal and that's it. That's why they have struggled now to come up with any replacement plan. It was never part of the thought process.

I wish that those California Dems would just get it together on their single payer plan and get it passed in their state. Folks that need health insurance need a place to go and Canada has closed its boarders to unhealthy people. Maybe they can just put it on the next state ballot. California can show us the way on how single payer insurance would work for the rest of the country!

[Walter Sobchak]

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