Posted on 09/13/2017 5:18:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Monday, two seemingly unrelated headlines made the news. The first: America's national debt had finally reached $20 trillion. The second: New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker had finally come out in favor of Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders' magical, mythical "Medicare-For-All" plan.
Of course, the two aren't unrelated at all. Once again, the Democratic Party is signing checks the country can't cash. Sanders' Medicare-For-All scheme would add some $13.8 trillion in spending over the first decade alone. Medicare already carries $58 trillion in unfunded liabilities, according to National Review. How unrealistic is Medicare-For-All? It's so unrealistic that the state of California has rejected a single-payer health care for being too expensive -- and California currently has a Democratic supermajority in the state assembly.
Yet Democrats continue to push further and further to the left, fearful of being outflanked. Booker isn't alone in his newfound embrace of socialized medicine. California's Sen. Kamala Harris has also endorsed Sanders' ridiculous plan. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will be co-sponsoring Sanders' plan, as will Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon.
Why? Because Democrats are deeply frightened of being outflanked by socialists. There's no benefit to moving to the center when your base sees no purpose in fiscal responsibility. So instead, Democrats race one another to the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, Republicans cower in fear. Afraid of making the case for freedom, they compete with Democrats to see who can administer the giant state more "efficiently," as though efficiency were the key problem with statism. Thus, Republicans ran headlong from the possibility of repealing Obamacare, afraid that the American people would backlash against them for "taking away" some form of entitlement.
This is a mistake by Republicans. Yes, whoever touches entitlements pays a price. But that's not true if the alternative is a slide into total governmental control. That's the case Republicans made from the day Obamacare was initiated: that it was the first step toward socialized medicine. Now Democrats are showing that the Republican critique was true. Republicans ought to provide a binary choice here: Either slide into nationalized health care with Democrats or help us tear away the bulwarks of tyranny in health care in favor of freedom.
In exposing their own radicalism, the Democrats have provided Republicans with an opportunity to seize the middle with conservatism. Republicans need not bend before the media's insistence that health care is a government responsibility -- they can easily and honestly point at the Democratic frontrunners and identify the agenda. The question is whether Republicans have the courage to do so or whether they've bought the false narrative that President Trump won because he campaigned as a centrist. Trump won promising full Obamacare repeal. Republicans can do the same now and have the credibility of an awful alternative behind them.
All it takes is courage. Democratic cowardice has led the Party down the primrose path to full-on socialism. Now, Republicans must either make a stand against it or be complicit in bringing about that regime.
Yep. When we get national healthcare, it will be because Corporate America demands it. They desperately want from under that cost.
They accept it because there is no national alternative within their border, that is why there is "medical tourism ".
The citizens are already heavily taxed for their healthcare, so they see no additional expense 'out of pocket'.
I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats to do anot Obamacare clone, because they have to keep scamming us as people, they have to intentionally put a flaw in the law as a reason for us to re-elect them to solve exactly the problem they created, then repeat.
Don’t kid yourself. There’s a big medical tourism market for Americans too.
I am SURE the GOP will campaign on fighting this plan tooth and nail.
-PJ
Of congressional democRATs all are functionally communists.
Of congressional republicans, about half (maybe more) are functionally communists.
THAT is why we cannot get 0bamacare repealed when it counts. THAT is why border security is going nowhere in congress. THAT is why tax cuts are going nowhere in congress.
Heading should have read:
Democrats' Same Old Plan: Nationalize Health Care
I’m not. I live on Guam but go to the doctor in Hong Kong. However, there is a huge market in Thailand for British and Canadian citizens to get surgery and cancer treatment that they don’t have to wait for. It is a major industry in Thailand.
Another evil idea from the cabal of totalitarian nihilists (I refuse to call them “progressives”). But, Javanka wants it, the Pukes (GOP) want it, the Commies (Dems) want it, and a majority of the electorate wants it. The fact that you and I do not want it and can see it is a catastrophic development is irrelevant. So, it will happen and health care world-wide will decline as our system created ~100% of the life saving innovations. A black market in quality health care is on the way.
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Republicans ought to provide a binary choice here: Either slide into nationalized health care with Democrats or help us tear away the bulwarks of tyranny in health care in favor of freedom.
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False dichotomy: Either one adheres to the Constitution, and the limitations therein, or one does not.
Rejecting the ‘tyranny’ in h’care does not exclude any OTHER tyranny imposed and supported by (R).
Course, acknowledging the same would cause the whole house of cards to fall....
Canada is not attractive for business unless you like hiring dead zombies.
It seems that here is a chance for Republicans to do what’s right. Wondering if they won’t screw this up too.
We can thank the do nothing Republican majority Senate for this.
Just out of curiosity, how's that working out for those patients? Especially cancer patients? Do they have access to the latest treatments, medications and equipment? Are the doctors experienced? Where did they get their experience?
Call me skeptical; I work in a healthcare industry, and I'm just not aware of cutting-edge oncology practices in Thailand. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
Is there a functional, efficient, successful model fir that ANYWHERE on earth?
I mean-seriously!
Require them (congress, all state and federal leaders and legislatures, everyone) to get in line with the unwashed and see how quickly they change their tune!
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