Democrats’ plan to neuter Medicare for All irks liberals

[TalkRadio1]

Medicare for All may be progressives' rallying cry. But it’s Medicare for More that’s likely to wind up becoming reality.

Several likely 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are pushing plans for something short of universal health care, a move already creating friction within the party's empowered left wing, which has panned any attempt to water down the progressive dream of a single-payer system.

The more incremental approach is nonetheless frustrating for some progressives buoyed by the November elections and House leaders’ commitment to hold the first-ever hearings on Medicare for All.

They believe their party should seize on grassroots enthusiasm for single-payer health care that's injected the once-fringe concept into the Democratic mainstream, not run away from it.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/democrats-medicare-for-all-obamacare-1094146

 

[Kirkrapine]

The progressives are right about that.

 

[bellisarius]

How high are they going to have to raise the payroll tax (the most regressive tax of all) to cover this abortion of a plan?

 

[Kirkrapine]

How high are they going to have to raise the payroll tax (the most regressive tax of all) to cover this abortion of a plan?

Why not raise the income tax instead?

 

[BotanyBoy]

Why not raise the income tax instead?

Get the lower 50% paying their fair share first and no problem.

 

[Kirkrapine]

Get the lower 50% paying their fair share first and no problem.

They're paying it now, including the ones who are paid instead of paying.

 

[BotanyBoy]

They're paying it now, including the ones who are paid instead of paying.

No, they aren’t. They don’t pay shit.

We have a progressive income tax, not a standard or flat tax.

How could you not know this?