Posted on 05/13/2019 5:18:30 AM PDT by reaganaut1
A few months ago, Sen. Kamala Harris raised eyebrows when she nonchalantly proclaimed her desire to abolish private health insurance: “Let’s move on.” Today, Ms. Harris’s quip seems quaint. The latest liberal policy idea would effectively end all private health care for many Americans.
The proposal, the Medicare for America Act, first appeared as a 2018 paper by the Center for American Progress. It was a plan to expand government-run health care. It’s been called “the Democratic establishment’s alternative” to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s single-payer scheme. In March, Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke endorsed Medicare for America in lieu of the Sanders plan.
CNN declared that Mr. O’Rourke’s endorsement of Medicare for America demonstrates his “moderate path,” but the bill is anything but moderate. When Rep. Rosa DeLauro reintroduced Medicare for America legislation on May 1, she included a new, radical provision. The revised bill prohibits any medical provider “from entering into a private contract with an individual enrolled under Medicare for America for any item or service coverable under Medicare for America.” Essentially, this would bar program enrollees from paying for health care using their own money.
Liberals might claim this prohibition is more innocuous than it sounds, because Americans can still use private insurance under Medicare for America in some circumstances. But the legislation squeezes out the private insurance market in short order.
For starters, the law would automatically enroll babies in the new government program at birth. The Center for American Progress’s original paper admitted that the auto-enrollment language would ensure the government-run plan “would continue to grow in enrollment over time.” The bill would permit people to opt out of the government program only if they have “qualified health coverage” from an employer. And even employer-provided health insurance would soon disappear.
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What happened to “Its my body, my choice?”
Expel her from the Senate.
Then hang her for crimes against humanity.
On a related note, and I do mean related, guess who the largest employer in the UK is...
Gee, I thought Obamacare solved all the problems. I guess I’m wrong...again.
This is hardly the “new” Democrat plan. Obama let it slip during a 2008 campaign address that his health care plan was intended to bankrupt conventional insurance companies and pave the way for Single Payer.
The proper term would be “The old Communist Plan”.
The Democrat’s death plan to save the environment.Kill everyone.
How about you start with removing the Obamacare exemptions for congress critters and unions?
Obama said on tape that the goal is singer payer even if it takes 20 years to get there.
AS always with Government programs, the least responsible in our society will lion share of these benefits.
What happened to “fair”.
There, I fixed it. Despots always work the way the Stalinist Left is thinking
Universal abortion. The new “final solution”
And assisted suicide by choice at any age, and euthanasia for those who have “ used up” their “ share” of govt healthcare
Ezekiel Emmanuel’s “Complete Lives System”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/04/ezekiel_emmanuels_reaper_curve.html
...in the USA.
US world-class tertiary referral centers (and their specialists) will move to the Mexican border, Canada and Caribbean nations. ("Get your bypass or cancer treatment AND a suntan!")
Same thing as conservative black people being called Uncle Toms and “not real black people”
Same thing as “free speech for all” until Twitter and Facebook and Google and Apple smacked down anything and everyone accused of “hate speech”
“My Body my Choice” is just a stepping stone towards totalitarian power that the leftists want.
Obamacare was intended to produce this very result.
Kill the current system via slow strangulation. And set it up in such a way that when it collapses people will blame it and not the Democrats and come crying to the government to “fix” things.
Exactly, this should be used against them!
Such fascists.
Medicare for All would have to make all Health Care Providers into Government Employees. That explains the 40% decrease in Payments for services.
Also, like Bernie Sanders said this would not be free. The Premiums would just be paid to Government instead of Insurance Companies.
Just imagine the Government controlling another 17% of GDP.
On a related note, and I do mean related, guess who the largest employer in the UK is...
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