A Single-Payer Litmus Test For Democrats? Go For It

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 8/8/2017 | Staff

[IBD editorial writer]

Socialism: The Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party could mount primary challenges against candidates who don't fully embrace socialized medicine. They should. It would be a clarifying moment for a party that has been drifting toward the extreme left for some time.

Sanders' presidential pollster Ben Tulchin told Politico this week that "within the Democratic Party, this is fast-emerging as a litmus test." And Sanders, in an email to supporters, promises to "take on" not just insurance and drug companies, but "the establishment wing of the Democratic Party" to realize his dream of medical socialism in America.

If they succeed, whatever is left of the old mainstream Democrats would be swept away. And for what?

While polls show support for single-payer health care creeping upward — in which all private insurance plans would be outlawed and every American would be put on the equivalent of Medicaid — that's largely because the polls never bother to point out the massive costs and disruptions of socialized medicine.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

We shouldn’t adopt the language of the left. It’s government-payer, not single-payer.

[FiddlePig]

Though he is now in the arms of his Lord, tiny Charlie Hard is the face and poster child of Socialized “single payer healthcare. Final diagnosis from judges not doctors. Victim of the death panel.

[FiddlePig]

Charlie Gard (fumble fingers!) :(

[Joshua]

We shouldn’t adopt the language of the left. It’s government-payer, not single-payer.
Taxpayer-funded

[thirst4truth]

My husband went for his annual physical, the only medical procedure our new insurance company will pay for in full. Our doctor who we have had for 25 years, he is a friend and our age, early 60's, said he is not running anymore tests on my husband unless absolutely necessary, nothing else in his medical file that would be cause for "early death" by non treatment.

He was not joking and my husband may be the only one he confided in, they want all citizens over 50 dead. His nurse who has been with him for all the 25 years, sadly agreed.

[Buckeye McFrog]

they want all citizens over 50 dead.

So we'll quit outvoting the young BernieBots.

[Lorianne]

It’s tax-payer health care.

When people hear ‘government’ they always think someone else is going to pay ... or that there is some kind of government money tree somewhere.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I still like “government-payer”.

Tax-payer is attractive to half the population who pay no taxes. These parasites like it when their neighbors are picking up their tab.