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> In my view Medicare for All is the only realistic path. > Unfortunately Biden doesn't want it so that opportunity is gone for the next decades probably. The
by bhupy 5y ago
> In my view Medicare for All is the only realistic path.
> Unfortunately Biden doesn't want it so that opportunity is gone for the next decades probably.
These two sentences are at odds with one another.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoWhy are they at odds?
- bhupy 5y agoBecause it’s obviously not the most realistic path if it has no hope of passing “for the next decades”. There are clearly other more realistic paths, in that case.
- shoemakersteve 5y agoWow, it's a good thing you caught that or else people may have been mislead. Phew. Crisis averted. We're lucky there are people as pedantic as you around.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoIt’s a path that has a very realistic implementation because all the systems are there already. Name another more realistic path besides leaving things the way they are and keeping f…ing over the country with outrageous costs.
- bhupy 5y ago> All the systems are there already And all the systems are there already to implement a Swiss-style system (universal private healthcare with an individual mandate, sliding cost subsidies, and protection for pre-existing conditions). The only difference between Switzerland and the US is that the health insurance is predominately purchased on the individual market and is decoupled from employment. That’s the realistic path: decoupling health insurance from employment. In fact, all the systems are there already.
- spaetzleesser 5y ago“That’s the realistic path: decoupling health insurance from employment. In fact, all the systems are there already” That’s one thing we can agree on. Employer based health insurance needs to go.