Fri, 09/11/2009 - 10:55pm — dblhelix
To appear in this Sunday's Washington Post Outlook section:
But what seems missing in the current battle is a single proposal that everyone can understand and that does not lend itself to demagoguery. If we want comprehensive health care for all our citizens, we can achieve it with a single sentence: Congress hereby extends Medicare to all Americans.
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We recently bailed out the finance houses and banks to the tune of $700 billion. A country that can afford such an outlay while paying for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can afford to do what every other advanced democracy has done: underwrite quality health care for all its citizens.
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It felt good
to use the 'Dems Who Don't Suck" theme.
mcgovern for president!
one sentence legislation, how cool is that?
nice article all the way through. thanks for finding it.
This is excellent.
The CPC has lost the reform debate. It's gone from major public program to Romney regulatory stance. You know what, the CPC has the numbers to stop this train wreck and stand up for Medicare for All. Those co-opted advocacy groups are absolutely ruining real reforms efforts.
Medicare for All is Civil Rights
it might be time to look to
it might be time to look to the middle class caucus [yay anthony weiner!] and the populist caucus, although at first glance, it appears that there's some overlap between them and the cpc.
Yes, but that's a good idea.
Lobby these groups individually from the CPC. Also, lobby the CBC. Is there a rural caucus? They could surely use single payer.
Medicare for All is Civil Rights
congressional rural caucus i
congressional rural caucus
i wouldn't have thought of that. thanks.
yes, single payer would help those living in rural areas, though this is likely to be a harder sell since those areas are short on doctors, clinics, and hospitals, and i'm going to guess they have republican reps. still, it's very much worth trying.
rural caucus: no govt takeover of healthcare!
at least, that's the view of this member of the rural caucus ---
[although i approve of the sentiment on medicare cuts]
the populist caucus
has been slow to embrace even the "public option," to put it mildly. My gut feeling is that it was set up to make sure the GOP wouldn't get a foothold.
i haven't kept up with them
other than to know that they exist. glad to hear they're not letting the gop grab the title of populist. now we just need to turn them into actual populists....
i wonder what other caucuses are worth tackling.
Ha, less than a year ago I was coming off the high of the
election season, so I decided to read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. I came away from it with a pretty good opinion of George McGovern, in spite of his apparent flaws that year.
It's nice to see he's still a decent guy.
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
Medicare Buy-In
Am I really the only one who thinks there needs to be a strong push by liberal organizations to substitute the weak and meaningless "public option" for a Medicare buy in program open to any person, business or government entity without restriction.
We ain't getting single-payer this go round, but hell we could drastically increase the rolls for Medicare. I doubt there are many corporations or small businesses that wouldn't dump their private insurance for Medicare.
I don't imagine it would be easy, but it would be at least adequate justification for voting against this bill and offering something on the House floor that might actually get close to 218 votes.