The single-payer insanity

[TalkRadio]

On Wednesday, Senator Bernie Sanders will introduce a new version of his long-standing proposal to provide “Medicare for All,” creating single-payer health insurance system that ends the private insurance industry as we know it.

The Democratic Party now is, for all intents and purposes, the party of single-payer health insurance.

Big mistake.

Democrats are committing themselves to years more of a treacherous health care debate, at a time when there are more pressing issues to confront. They are emulating Donald Trump’s penchant for quick-fix, bumper-sticker solutions that prove to be, in his own words, more “complicated” once in power. And instead of maintaining a candid relationship with its ideological base in order to temper expectations, the party establishment is indulging it, risking bitter disappointment in the future.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...r-democrats-litmus-test-bernie-sanders-215600

 

[Freudian_Slit]

So, just how many turds are you gonna leave on the GB this afternoon?

 

[TalkRadio]

So, just how many turds are you gonna leave on the GB this afternoon?

^^^ Rob, Luk or Ferm?

Hey, Rob! Tell us all about your 15 years of excellence & your 6th place finish in the recent GB Hall of Fame election. You'll always be AJ's & Que's bitch.

Hey, Luk! Tell us all about your never ending search for your manhood & your 9th place finish in the recent GB Hall of Fame election.

Hey, Ferm! Tell us all about your never ending search for a man you'll never be able to keep.

 

[Hypoxia]

So, just how many turds are you gonna leave on the GB this afternoon?

All of them. Big fat juicy ones.

Meanwhile, here's how Medicare works. USA workers pay for Medicare with payroll deductions. Many public and private for- and non-profit medical groups accept Medicare coverage. Folks wanting more than the basic coverage buy supplemental coverage from public or private agencies.

Medicare For All should (and no, I've not seen the details, nor have I time now) it SHOULD provide the safety net. Anything extra, we pay for. We have co-pays for many covered services. Medicare doesn't force me to use gov't clinics or gov't doctors, any of that shit. It's not the VA. And it doesn't siphon-off 1/6 of healthcare dollars for shareholders and executives.