That Team Democrat would be blamed for every glitch in America's health-care system:
[T]here are deluded, angry, lying and sometimes totally justified constituents out there who are going to publicly confront Democrats for quite some time and these Democrats are going to have to have a strategy for dealing with it. They certainly can't demean or contradict these voters. So, what do they do? It's not a simple problem. And I don't have the answer.
I do. It's called "Medicare For All." Maybe the next time we have a Democrat in the White House and big majorities in both houses of Congress, we'd consider enacting it into law. It would certainly be preferable to constantly having to defend a piece of legislation that's easy to demagogue, difficult to understand, and which arbitrarily picks winners and losers based on age and income. Sure, it will, over time, make our terrible, overpriced health-care system slightly less terrible and less overpriced, but Team Democrat had to know that once they'd waded into the morass, they would be blamed for everything real or imagined that's been affected by the Goldberg Act. (Not to say they did know ahead of time; incompetence is always a possibility!) Besides being smarter policy, Medicare For All is smarter politics too since it puts the Republicans on the defensive by having to explain why we shouldn't be allowed to enjoy the same level of health care that our parents and grandparents do. At least we could discuss it!
---Baron V
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