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The Force is With Me
All thoughout the healthcare debate and beyond, people were told that republicans would never go along with healthcare reform and would never support a single-payer system. Is that true?
Question: Are republicans hostile to Medicare?
Keep in mind that seniors are their most loyal and reliable constituents.
Are seniors hostile to Medicare?
For consideration ..
Talk of Medicare Changes Could Open Way to Budget Pact
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/u...for-medicare-changes.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
They're pushing Ryan's 'Premium Support Plan.'
When the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said this .. "Seniors will have to find $12,500 for health care because Republicans voted to end Medicare."
This is how Politifact judged that statement ..
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ats-say-republicans-voted-end-medicare-and-c/
It was a blazing lie.
When Howard Dean said this .. "All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board."
This is how Politifact judged that statement ..
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...laims-social-security-and-medicare-were-pass/
It was false.
Someone told democrats that republicans were automatically hostile to Medicare. That isn't true. As flawed as it may have been, Bush championed Medicare Part B.
Someone told democrats that republicans weren't going to support healthcare reform .. would never support a single-payer system. That isn't true either.
Conservatives and Liberals Agree: Medicare for All Would Be Constitutional
Conservatives and liberals may disagree about the constitutionality of the individual mandate requiring all uninsured Americans to buy health insurance from private companies or pay a penalty to the IRS.
But there is no debate about whether single-payer Medicare For All would be constitutional. No one -- not even the most hard core, right-wing libertarians -- disputes that the federal government has the constitutional authority to tax all Americans to pay for Medicare-style health insurance for all, as it pays for Medicare for everyone over 65.
Indeed the Republican Attorney General of Louisiana, Buddy Caldwell -- who is one of the attorneys general opposing the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") in the Supreme Court -- is against the Individual Mandate because it props up the private health insurance agency and he prefers single payer. "Insurance companies are the absolute worst people to handle this kind of business," Caldwell said last week outside the Supreme Court. "If you have a hurricane come up the east coast, the first one that's going to leave when they gotta pay too many claims is an insurance company." Caldwell went on to endorse the idea of a government backed single-payer system as "a whole lot better" than mandating private insurance.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/medicare-for-all_b_1400712.html
I've worked with PNHP and CNA .. we've run the numbers, we've had the interviews. Medicare-for-All could have indeed passed.
Infrastructure already in place .. one of the most popular programs in American history .. and a popularity that crosses all party lines.
Lowers costs, addresses the doctor shortage, easily understood, eliminates employers from the equation, and treats the medical field as a boom industry that cannot be shipped overseas.
The ACA is no comparison to Medicare-For-All .. and good leadership could have made it a reality.
Democrats have been played .. easily.
Question: Are republicans hostile to Medicare?
Keep in mind that seniors are their most loyal and reliable constituents.
Are seniors hostile to Medicare?
For consideration ..
Talk of Medicare Changes Could Open Way to Budget Pact
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/u...for-medicare-changes.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
They're pushing Ryan's 'Premium Support Plan.'
When the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said this .. "Seniors will have to find $12,500 for health care because Republicans voted to end Medicare."
This is how Politifact judged that statement ..
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...ats-say-republicans-voted-end-medicare-and-c/
It was a blazing lie.
When Howard Dean said this .. "All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board."
This is how Politifact judged that statement ..
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...laims-social-security-and-medicare-were-pass/
It was false.
Someone told democrats that republicans were automatically hostile to Medicare. That isn't true. As flawed as it may have been, Bush championed Medicare Part B.
Someone told democrats that republicans weren't going to support healthcare reform .. would never support a single-payer system. That isn't true either.
Conservatives and Liberals Agree: Medicare for All Would Be Constitutional
Conservatives and liberals may disagree about the constitutionality of the individual mandate requiring all uninsured Americans to buy health insurance from private companies or pay a penalty to the IRS.
But there is no debate about whether single-payer Medicare For All would be constitutional. No one -- not even the most hard core, right-wing libertarians -- disputes that the federal government has the constitutional authority to tax all Americans to pay for Medicare-style health insurance for all, as it pays for Medicare for everyone over 65.
Indeed the Republican Attorney General of Louisiana, Buddy Caldwell -- who is one of the attorneys general opposing the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") in the Supreme Court -- is against the Individual Mandate because it props up the private health insurance agency and he prefers single payer. "Insurance companies are the absolute worst people to handle this kind of business," Caldwell said last week outside the Supreme Court. "If you have a hurricane come up the east coast, the first one that's going to leave when they gotta pay too many claims is an insurance company." Caldwell went on to endorse the idea of a government backed single-payer system as "a whole lot better" than mandating private insurance.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/medicare-for-all_b_1400712.html
I've worked with PNHP and CNA .. we've run the numbers, we've had the interviews. Medicare-for-All could have indeed passed.
Infrastructure already in place .. one of the most popular programs in American history .. and a popularity that crosses all party lines.
Lowers costs, addresses the doctor shortage, easily understood, eliminates employers from the equation, and treats the medical field as a boom industry that cannot be shipped overseas.
The ACA is no comparison to Medicare-For-All .. and good leadership could have made it a reality.
Democrats have been played .. easily.
