Posted on 02/26/2018 8:06:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
One of the most glaring signs that the Democratic Party has shifted even farther leftward since the 2016 election is in the way most Democratic candidates are embracing Senator Bernie Sanders's single-payer health care plan, which he calls "Medicare for All."
As a candidate pushing this idea in 2016, Sanders was criticized by the Democratic Party establishment for proposing universal health care, telling voters it was politically unrealistic and a non-starter. Hillary Clinton and congressional Democrats were proposing minor tweaks to Obamacare rather than overhauling the entire health care system.
But the hard lurch to the left by Democrats, which has seen dozens of Sanders-boosters now running for office, has made the "Medicare for All" plan more acceptable to a majority of Democrats. In fact, most of the major candidates being mentioned in 2020 have come out in favor of it.
Democrats acknowledge the embrace of single-payer is part of a broader leftward shift for their party. But they say the experience of trying to make private markets work in ObamaCare – a system that Republicans have opposed at every turn – has changed their perspective on the likelihood of achieving universal coverage.
"I think Bernie Sanders has definitely laid out a vision and created a movement toward Medicare for all, and no doubt that has been a big factor," said Topher Spiro, vice president for health policy at CAP.
Part of the need for the next step, he said, is "it's become clear we're not going to get any cooperation from Republicans in terms of making the current system work optimally, and there's a lot of frustration there."
The Medicare Extra plan is a way to take the "final step" to universal coverage after ObamaCare,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Bernie will put his wife in charge of finding the money
Mark Levin and Prof. Walter Williams likened the U.S. to the fall of virtually all great empires last night given this country has pretty much lost its morality, etc. Was an enlightening show, especially given some very thoughtful and knowledgeable comments made by Prof. Walter Williams.
Can anyone say, "The single goal of the Progressive movement has been, and is, 'Control'?"
And that Progressive "control" is intended to mean that some imperfect individual human beings, whether singly or in a group, make decisions and take actions which rob individuals of their Creator-endowed rights and liberties--all the while denying that those individuals are indentified by the Preamble of the Constitution as, "We, the People," who are, in the words of Justice Story, "the only KEEPERS" of the Constitution."
Yes, we don’t have a national consensus or a even a nation any longer. We are a collection of factions, with one of the larger factions (our side) not fighting as hard, or maybe as effectively, as the others.
Witness today’s court decision. The “conservative” faction backed away in deference to what they see as the law.
When the Left regains its fifth vote, the court will never again judge a case on its merits.
A buddy of mine, steadfast Christian, gun man, staunch right-winger, has been reading some book that argues that empires have always collapsed after about 250 years of success.
Here we are.
Democrats and other parasites always open to a free ride that make other people pay for leaches on the march.
The point is that people on medicare still have to pay some out of pocket. The whole point of the Democrat’s plan is that everything is free.
The Democrats do not really mean Medicare with all of its pieces that include substantial out of pocket costs.
Since they are pathological liars it is impossible to know what they _really_ intend.
But none of them will be on it.
I am not sure but I did find this:
http://therightscoop.com/its-here-watch-mark-levins-opening-segment-to-his-new-show-on-fox-news/
I think you know I live in this joke of a city also. Who cares what people think here. The states that matter won’t go for it.
Exactly.
I'm sure they don't expect everyone to pay a Medicare Part B premium, like retired folks do.
Or maybe they do. Perhaps that's part of the scam: Promise people free stuff, then make them pay for the free stuff.
Dems are evilly clever. Gotta admit. ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
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