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Liberal Strategy: Democratic National Single Payer Healthcare On The March, The Show-down. The ACA’s Liberal Leftist Agenda (Part 1)
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02/19/2017 Democratic National Single Payer Healthcare On The March The Show-down. The ACA’s Liberal Leftist Agenda (Part 1)
Lambert Strether
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/02/single-payer-march.html
Last week was quite a week for single payer advocacy;
A Political Opening for Universal Health Care?
The political appeal of a single-payer, universal health-care system is perhaps best outlined by Jessi Bohon, a high-school teacher who attended a raucous and often angry town hall with Republican Representative Diane Black in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, last week.
In the turmoil over the fate of Obamacare, the idea of universal health care has emerged as a third way among voters in both parties.
The health system the mainstream GOP opposes most is now one some of its voters support—potentially making Price’s task of replacing Obamacare all the more complicated.
Were they to take the plunge, Democratic candidates could run as challengers in upcoming elections on a third way of health reform:
Neither extending unpopular pieces of a program nor rolling back coverage, but giving everyone Medicare.
And if the Democratic Party were to support universal health care, that might put pressure on Republicans, who wouldn’t want to lose voters who fear loss of coverage or doctors under a massive repeal.
Thus the precariousness of the Republicans’ position.
Slate inadvertantly gives the cultural reasons, if I may so dignify them, why Democrats might find this hard to do. But first the headline:
Meet the Teacher Whose Powerful, Christian Defense of Obamacare Made a GOP Town Hall Go Viral http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/02/10/meet_jessi_bohon_whose_christian_defense_of_obamacare_made_a_gop_town_hall.html
Meet the Teacher Whose Powerful, Christian Defense of Obamacare Made a GOP Town Hall Go Viral
Note that the editor who presumably wrote the headline was just as dishonest as CNN;
The headline, too, erases the key part of Bohon’s question. To be fair, the reporter doesn’t erase it, and draws Bohon out as follows:
Yet when I ask Bohon what she hopes people get out of her burst of viral celebrity, she doesn’t mention religion or health insurance.
She returns to her childhood, to the stereotypes Americans have of Appalachia and the South.
‘There are people in Tennessee, there are people from these little rural areas, that are different than they are categorized to be.’
And what might that be? ‘Hillbilly dumb.’ That’s wrong, she says.
‘I learned everything about taking care of your community growing up there.’
If the Democrats really want to use single payer as the road back to political power, therefore, they are also going to have to give up the snarky insults about how stupid everybody else is.
That will be hard for them.
It will be especially hard for them if the Clintonites maintain their death-grip on the party leadership positions, since insulting non-Clintonites is their stock in trade.
Bohon, for example, could be said to “cling to” her religion. Eh?
Obama: No Surprise That Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians Turn Bitter Clinger To Their Guns
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-no-surprise-that-ha_b_96188.html
Finally, here’s Bohon’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post, where she reflects on the town hall and advocates for single payer directly:
As a Christian, I defended Obamacare. But I really support single-payer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/15/as-a-christian-i-defended-obamacare-but-i-really-support-single-payer/?utm_term=.c69b4941cf44
As a Christian, I defended Obamacare. But I really support single-payer
But the truth is that I do not actually believe that the ACA is the best way to insure people.
In fact, I am ashamed and afraid that this video might have done more harm than good.
In my view, Christians shouldn’t be satisfied with health-care policy that leaves anyone out, especially those who need care most but can afford it least. Christians should support a universal, single-payer system.
If I had a chance to address our leaders directly again, I would say this:
Christianity demands that we make sure all people have health coverage. In other words,
I would have focused instead on the Christian case for universal, single-payer health insurance, which would protect all Americans.
And if Republicans want to campaign as Christians, they should lead the way.
In my view, it is immoral for health care to be a for-profit enterprise.
Insurance companies are making enormous sums of money off the sick while people are struggling to pay their medical bills.
Patients even die sooner when nonprofit hospitals switch to making money.
Health Care and Profits, a Poor Mix
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/business/health-care-and-pursuit-of-profit-make-a-poor-mix.html
Preach! As we say.
California Introduces Single Payer Legislation, the San Jose Mercury News:
In a surprise move made in response to President Donald Trump’s push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, two California lawmakers Friday introduced legislation to replace private medical insurance with a government health care system covering all 38 million Californians
including its undocumented residents.
“We’ve reached this pivotal moment and I thought to myself:
‘Look, now more than ever is the time to talk about universal health care,'” one of Senate Bill 562’s authors, Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, said in an interview Friday.
The Healthy California Act, co-authored by Sen. Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, was submitted just before the deadline for new legislation.
It doesn’t yet offer many specifics other than the lawmakers’ intent: to create a so-called single-payer system that would pay for coverage for everyone.
In other words, the best defense against Trump is a good offense.
(I view including illegal immigrants in the program pragmatically; if that’s what’s needed to secure passage, then so be it.
If it’s a deal-breaker, dump it.
Separately, it makes sense to get illegal immigrants into the system for vaccination, transmissible diseases, and to manage epidemics.)
Of course we’re going to need to see the details, but California’s GDP is about the size of France’s, so there’s absolutely no question of scale, as there was with Vermont (and possibly Colorado).
Happily, National Nurses United is strongly in favor of the bill:
California legislation would create single-payer health care system
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/California-legislation-would-create-single-payer-10939557.php
RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, the largest U.S. organization of registered nurses, said the union would mount a “major mobilization” to try to enact a single-payer system in California.
She said she believed it had a better chance than in years past because of President Trump’s efforts to overturn the Affordable Care Act, a more active political base, and a new crop of state legislators who are younger and more open-minded.”
It is one of the most salient issues of our time,” she said.
Lambert Strether
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/02/single-payer-march.html
Last week was quite a week for single payer advocacy;
A Political Opening for Universal Health Care?
The political appeal of a single-payer, universal health-care system is perhaps best outlined by Jessi Bohon, a high-school teacher who attended a raucous and often angry town hall with Republican Representative Diane Black in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, last week.
In the turmoil over the fate of Obamacare, the idea of universal health care has emerged as a third way among voters in both parties.
The health system the mainstream GOP opposes most is now one some of its voters support—potentially making Price’s task of replacing Obamacare all the more complicated.
Were they to take the plunge, Democratic candidates could run as challengers in upcoming elections on a third way of health reform:
Neither extending unpopular pieces of a program nor rolling back coverage, but giving everyone Medicare.
And if the Democratic Party were to support universal health care, that might put pressure on Republicans, who wouldn’t want to lose voters who fear loss of coverage or doctors under a massive repeal.
Thus the precariousness of the Republicans’ position.
Slate inadvertantly gives the cultural reasons, if I may so dignify them, why Democrats might find this hard to do. But first the headline:
Meet the Teacher Whose Powerful, Christian Defense of Obamacare Made a GOP Town Hall Go Viral http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/02/10/meet_jessi_bohon_whose_christian_defense_of_obamacare_made_a_gop_town_hall.html
Meet the Teacher Whose Powerful, Christian Defense of Obamacare Made a GOP Town Hall Go Viral
Note that the editor who presumably wrote the headline was just as dishonest as CNN;
The headline, too, erases the key part of Bohon’s question. To be fair, the reporter doesn’t erase it, and draws Bohon out as follows:
Yet when I ask Bohon what she hopes people get out of her burst of viral celebrity, she doesn’t mention religion or health insurance.
She returns to her childhood, to the stereotypes Americans have of Appalachia and the South.
‘There are people in Tennessee, there are people from these little rural areas, that are different than they are categorized to be.’
And what might that be? ‘Hillbilly dumb.’ That’s wrong, she says.
‘I learned everything about taking care of your community growing up there.’
If the Democrats really want to use single payer as the road back to political power, therefore, they are also going to have to give up the snarky insults about how stupid everybody else is.
That will be hard for them.
It will be especially hard for them if the Clintonites maintain their death-grip on the party leadership positions, since insulting non-Clintonites is their stock in trade.
Bohon, for example, could be said to “cling to” her religion. Eh?
Obama: No Surprise That Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians Turn Bitter Clinger To Their Guns
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-no-surprise-that-ha_b_96188.html
Finally, here’s Bohon’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post, where she reflects on the town hall and advocates for single payer directly:
As a Christian, I defended Obamacare. But I really support single-payer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/15/as-a-christian-i-defended-obamacare-but-i-really-support-single-payer/?utm_term=.c69b4941cf44
As a Christian, I defended Obamacare. But I really support single-payer
But the truth is that I do not actually believe that the ACA is the best way to insure people.
In fact, I am ashamed and afraid that this video might have done more harm than good.
In my view, Christians shouldn’t be satisfied with health-care policy that leaves anyone out, especially those who need care most but can afford it least. Christians should support a universal, single-payer system.
If I had a chance to address our leaders directly again, I would say this:
Christianity demands that we make sure all people have health coverage. In other words,
I would have focused instead on the Christian case for universal, single-payer health insurance, which would protect all Americans.
And if Republicans want to campaign as Christians, they should lead the way.
In my view, it is immoral for health care to be a for-profit enterprise.
Insurance companies are making enormous sums of money off the sick while people are struggling to pay their medical bills.
Patients even die sooner when nonprofit hospitals switch to making money.
Health Care and Profits, a Poor Mix
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/business/health-care-and-pursuit-of-profit-make-a-poor-mix.html
Preach! As we say.
California Introduces Single Payer Legislation, the San Jose Mercury News:
In a surprise move made in response to President Donald Trump’s push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, two California lawmakers Friday introduced legislation to replace private medical insurance with a government health care system covering all 38 million Californians
including its undocumented residents.
“We’ve reached this pivotal moment and I thought to myself:
‘Look, now more than ever is the time to talk about universal health care,'” one of Senate Bill 562’s authors, Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, said in an interview Friday.
The Healthy California Act, co-authored by Sen. Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, was submitted just before the deadline for new legislation.
It doesn’t yet offer many specifics other than the lawmakers’ intent: to create a so-called single-payer system that would pay for coverage for everyone.
In other words, the best defense against Trump is a good offense.
(I view including illegal immigrants in the program pragmatically; if that’s what’s needed to secure passage, then so be it.
If it’s a deal-breaker, dump it.
Separately, it makes sense to get illegal immigrants into the system for vaccination, transmissible diseases, and to manage epidemics.)
Of course we’re going to need to see the details, but California’s GDP is about the size of France’s, so there’s absolutely no question of scale, as there was with Vermont (and possibly Colorado).
Happily, National Nurses United is strongly in favor of the bill:
California legislation would create single-payer health care system
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/California-legislation-would-create-single-payer-10939557.php
RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, the largest U.S. organization of registered nurses, said the union would mount a “major mobilization” to try to enact a single-payer system in California.
She said she believed it had a better chance than in years past because of President Trump’s efforts to overturn the Affordable Care Act, a more active political base, and a new crop of state legislators who are younger and more open-minded.”
It is one of the most salient issues of our time,” she said.
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