I don’t understand people are all aflutter about the sometimes obscure differences between the various Democratic candidates’ plans for health care reform.
In a sense, it gives the false impression that what a candidate lays out now, more than a year ahead of the election, is what we’ll eventually get.
It just doesn’t work that way. Whatever the successful candidate’s plan, it’s just the starting point with a very long legislative slog ahead for any serious attempt to redefine our health care system.
Whatever the specifics of each candidate’s proposal, I’m more interested in what realistic pathway they see through Congress, and why they believe their plan has more chance of success than those proposed by others.
Those aren’t answers that can be reduced to one-minute sound bites, and why I found this week’s second series of debates so unsatisfying.
Can anyone point me to available online video of each of the candidates spelling out their important campaign planks, perhaps beginning with health care, without the frenetic spectacle these “debates” became?
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These Obama Health Care attack’s against VP Biden are great folly by circular firing squad. Guess after the epic hype and reliance on Robert Mueller Report…the only solution is for the #20 Presidential candidates is to kick each other in the shin’s until only one can still walk!
Adding extreme insult to injury MSNBC “Hardball’s” Chris Mathews lambasted Senator Warren for continuously ducking His question. “How much of a tax increase cost increase will be required by Your health plan???”…Choir Director Mathews, attacking His own the lead falsetto!
Even Hawaii’s Tulsi got a jab in Kamala on behalf of President Trump.
In summation, it looks like Starbucks founder Schultz Independent candidacy is looking like your best Trump 2020 opposition!!!
Shades of Nixon vs. McGovern, and or Reagan vs. Carter come to mind!
I was thinking the very same thing. The smart answer would have been for candidates to say their plans were foundations that will evolve, that only one of the candidates will receive the nomination, and that continuing to work together will ensure the best possible health plan for all Americans. Instead of fighting each other, stress that Democrats are for affordable and effective health care for all, while Trump et al. are not.
Sorry Ian don’t have an answer for you but in regards to American medical care Alan Macleod had an interesting opinion piece in the Guardian today called Just a normal day in America, injecting yourself with dog insulin.
Lei – Very clever post :). Enjoyed.
Look, with the format provided, candidates have to cram in their strategies with scant detail. Each has to balance appealing to the dumbed down while not alarming the DNC.
Entitlements do take a huge slice of the U.S. fiscal pie that is unsustainable, not to mention that it is not making us a healthy country. Clearly the system is broken, like many of our systems: legal, political, military…..time for a reboot.