The fight over Medicare for All is destroying the party’s 2020 chances. “Medicare Prices for All” is the way out.
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Did Elizabeth Warren Fatally Wound Herself in the Debate?
By endorsing the abolition of private health insurance, she either covered her flank or planted a general election time bomb.
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Bernie Sanders Created Confusion About Single-Payer Health Care
Most people think ‘Medicare for All’ would allow people to buy in to the existing program.
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The Pathway to Medicare for All
Disrupting the health care of 160 million people is too big of a hurdle to clear in one leap.
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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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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 […]
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There Is No Conflict Between Promoting Single-Payer and Defending Obamacare
It’s time to put an end to this bad-faith attack on single-payer advocates.
