Disrupting the health care of 160 million people is too big of a hurdle to clear in one leap.
Medicare for All
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The Right-Wing Media Machine Was Built to Destroy People Like Christine Blasey Ford
They’re more aroused by destroying lives than Donald Trump was by Stormy Daniels.
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On Slogans and Self-Interest
The Democrats overestimate how far they can get politically without appealing to people’s selfishness or acknowledging their fears.
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Golden Slumbers: Trumpists Will Never Care About Sex, Lies or Videotape
It might as well not even exist in their minds. Let’s say that somehow, someway, The Tape hit the Internet. Explicit footage of Donald Trump in a Moscow hotel room in the fall of 2013, whooping it up as Russian escorts got their freak on in a most unsanitary manner. Imagine seeing Trump, the leader […]
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Elizabeth Warren Proposes a Plan to Strengthen Obamacare
Rather than moving in the direction of single payer, she is proposing additional regulations on health insurers.
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Would Medicare for All Be Immune to Republican Sabotage?
Republicans continue to try to sabotage both Medicaid and Medicare decades after they were established.
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No One’s Out to Get Al Franken
So, can we finally knock it off with suggestions that Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) was the victim of a right-wing hit job? If Franken legitimately believed that the allegations against him were either completely fictional or somewhat exaggerated, he would have immediately said so. It beggars belief that Franken, who went through legal hell in […]
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2017, The Monopolized Economy
How Big Medicine Can Ruin Medicare for All
A single-payer system will degenerate into corporate welfare unless we take on health care monopolies.
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Virginia Slim: Could A Right-Wing Minion Win the Old Dominion?
If Ed Gillespie pulls off the upset, it could have major consequences for 2018.
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Even if Democrats Win Back Congress, Medicare for All May Be Doomed
Do you really think they have any idea what they’re in for? Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and the handful of Democratic Senators supporting Sanders’s Medicare for All initiative certainly deserve credit for getting behind such a bold effort–but they are profoundly naive if they think a bill establishing such a policy will make it through […]
