[Pearls Before Swine]

The lefties don’t like trickle down economics. They are going to try “tricke up” poverty.

[xkaydet65]

While I abhor what I am about to suggest, but if Obama is serious about one payer health care wouldn't it be simpler and less onerous economically to abolish Medicare and Medicaid and use those expenditures, along with that crazy 600 billion downpayment no one mentions, that was placed in the current budget, to create a one payer system?

If this is what the Dums want, the framework and much of the money already exists. As a matter of fact a federal takeover of Medicaid under, say Ohio payment standards, would save billions that are now spent in places like Calif and NY. Before I get flamed, I am NOT ADVOCATING this, just wondering why the haloed one doesn't do things in a simple more straightforward manner.