Posted on 03/10/2015 6:16:22 AM PDT by Whenifhow
While speaking with liberal talk-radio host Thom Hartmann last week, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said he agreed with the idea of lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 0, and essentially establishing a national, government-run health care system, claiming it “would be terrific.”
Hartmann, while discussing the King v. Burwell case now before the Supreme Court, which could potentially end federal Obamacare subsidies for people in 34 states, said to Sen. Brown on Mar. 3, "Might it be a good time to start talking about alternatives, like, for example what Robert Ball, the guy who wrote the Medicare bill back in the ‘60s, is on the record saying ... that they put Medicare together in a way and with the assumption that a future president or a future Congress would simply start lowering the eligibility age by a decade every couple of years, giving a couple of years for the bureaucracy to absorb that many new enrollees, until eventually the eligibility age for Medicare was Zero."
Senator Brown said, "Yeah, which I think is -- would be terrific. You may remember, Thom, because we talked during this process, I had written a provision in the Affordable Care Act to bring Medicare eligibility to 55, which was what Mr. Ball -- one of the things he suggested then and President Clinton worked on it 20 years ago and we thought we had that vote and Senator Lieberman changed his mind and we couldn't get the sixtith vote then."
Brown continued, "But ideally that's where we go with this, that Mediacre has worked for people over 65. There are, of course, problems, but it's worked.”
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How about groceries, senator ?
A national food supply service would be terrific.
How about automobiles...oh, wait.
Essentially what the Republicans suggested in the 1970s. Shocking, that it all comes back now.
And, of course, you and all your buddies on the hill would be using this same "terrific" system of health care - you, your families and all your employees, right?
If the answer to that ain't "Hell, yes" then you know what to do with your ideas...
..from 20 million to 80 million illegals in a heart beat.
Have no doubt that he has a plan to raise taxes astronomically to pay for it.
This is another idiot democrat marxist
He’s advocating socialism
Idiot democrat fools all of them
socialism never works
This is a collection of states that formed an alliance to have a weak federal government , a constitutional republic not some marxist hell hole you idiot democrats. go move to socialist Venezuela and stand in the 10000 person line for toilet paper and leave the free market and our country alone
Not a single Republican voted to pass Obamacare
Every single democrat politician voted to pass Obamacare .
Obamacare is marxist/socialist crap
The Republican Congress from 1994 to 2006 never passed socialist government healthcare. as soon as democrats took over congress they passed Obamacare
your party the democrats own it
Go back and review the Nixon period. There were open discussions on how to incorporate Medicare into a national health-care program. Various Republicans supported it. It never picked up traction because all the health insurance folks opposed it.
1:24 Minutes
Sen. Sherrod Brown: Lowering The Medicare Age To Zero ‘Would Be Terrific’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU3y6IRZxlo
Why go half-way with Medicare?
We should have the entire country on Medicaid. Every few years change the requirements so another 50 millions get enrolled.
Yes, terrific. It’s the right word, last used correctly to my recollection by Senator Bob Kerrey: “We think the first lady is terrific.”
Obamacare was simply the vehicle to crash the private insurance market so we would be forced into nationalized healthcare.
That was always the plan.
Your party owns this, the democrat party. don't try to blame another party for it . actions matter .passing laws matter . blocking laws from passing matter. what you said that someone that calls himself Republican said means nothing. you are a democrat agent
Not a single Republican voted to pass Obamacare
Every single democrat politician voted to pass Obamacare .
Obamacare is marxist/socialist crap
The Republican Congress from 1994 to 2006 never passed socialist government healthcare. as soon as democrats took over congress they passed Obamacare
your party the democrats own it
Feb 1974....Nixon’s own idea.
Comprehensive health insurance reform with an employer mandate to offer private health insurance and replacement of Medicaid by state-run health insurance plans available to all with income-based premiums and cost sharing.
Democrats took the concept which was ‘near’ identical to Nixon’s plan. Issue? Big substantial cost sharing. Old folks and unions went ballistic. They couldn’t get either group to sign onto support.
Go back and review the history on this. If the Democrats had done more work on old folks and unions....Medicare for all would have eventually been passed with Nixon actively supporting it and it’d all be history today. The income-based premiums would have been a copy of European models in use today. The cost-sharing? It would have screwed over the public, in the same manner we have today, as well.
since 1994 when Republicans took the House they blocked Hillary care, and never passed socialist healthcare for all the years they held the House majority.
Your party owns this, the democrat party. don’t try to blame another party for it . actions matter .passing laws matter . blocking laws from passing matter. what you said that someone that calls himself Republican said means nothing. you are a democrat agent
Not a single Republican voted to pass Obamacare
Every single democrat politician voted to pass Obamacare .
Obamacare is marxist/socialist crap
The Republican Congress from 1994 to 2006 never passed socialist government healthcare. as soon as democrats took over congress they passed Obamacare
your party the democrats own it
COMMIECARE for all.
El-Rushbo would disagree, aka the Prescription Drug Bill which IMHO was a K-Street give me while trying to stave off the Wolf of Socialized Medicine, it didn't work the Wolf is still hungry and continues trying to gobble us...
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