John Delaney had what many consider the best moment of the debate, telling Bernie Sanders why his Medicare for All program would seriously degrade the quality of healthcare. (via Grabien:
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Posted on 07/31/2019 8:02:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There was one grown-up onstage last night in Detroit, trying to tether his party to reality. Unless John Delaney’s candidacy catches fire, the Democrats will match straight towards the disaster that Rahm Emanuel cautioned them about Monday:
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel warned Democratic presidential contenders Monday not to “win the nomination in a way that forecloses a path to victory in the general election.”
John Delaney had what many consider the best moment of the debate, telling Bernie Sanders why his Medicare for All program would seriously degrade the quality of healthcare. (via Grabien:
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(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
DELANEY: “So the bill that Senator Sanders drafted by definition will lower quality in health care because it says specifically that the rates will be the same as current Medicare rates, and the data is clear, Medicare does not cover the cost of health care. It covers 80% of the cost of health care in this country, and private insurance covers 120%. So if you start under paying all the health care providers, you’re going to create a two tier market where wealthy people buy their health care with cash and the people who are forced like my dad, the union electrician — “
TAPPER: “Thank you, congressman.”
DELANEY: “Who will have that health care plan taken away from him — “
TAPPER: “Thank you, congressman.”
DELANEY: “They will be forced — “
TAPPER: “I want to give Senator Sanders a chance to respond.”
SANDERS: “Under Medicare for all, the hospitals will save substantial sums of money because they won’t be spending a fortune doing billing and the other bureaucratic things they have to do today.”
DELANEY: “I’ve done the math — “
SANDERS: “Maybe you did that and made money off of health care but our job is to run a non-profit health care system. Third of all, third of all, when we say $500 billion a year by ending all of the incredible complexities that are driving — “
TAPPER: “Thank you — “
SANDERS: “ — every American crazy, trying to deal the health insurance companies —“
TAPPER: “Congressman Delaney. I will let you have a chance to respond.”
DELANEY: “His math is wrong. That’s all I’m saying. His math is wrong. It’s been well documented that if all the bills were paid at Medicare rate, which is specifically — I think it is in section 1200 of their bill in then many hospitals in this country would close. I’ve been going around rural America and ask rural hospital administrators one question, if all your bills were paid at the Medicare rate last year, what would happen? They all look at me and say we would close. But the question is why do we have to be so extreme? Why can’t we just give everyone health care as a right, and allow them to have choices — “
He hasn’t a chance. Democrat voters do not want to hear anything that dispels their fantasy beliefs.
True, every single detail of Medicare-for-all is like he says...it will dissolve total confidence in the healthcare system...hospitals will shut down various services, and someone will have to own up and take the blame. I doubt that it would survive more than two years before the next election occurred, and people fire the Democrats in mass.
Delaney knows precisely how the health insurance is rigged and how Medicare would cripple health care big-time. After the election, I’d like for Trump to invite Delaney in and get some of his ideas. We need to undo the Obama program, but there has to be some improvements in the system.
The Democrats are completely divorced from reality.
It harshes their mellow..........
Wow! A sane Democrat ... and one who understands economics no less.
Sounds like he’s ripe to be flipped after his presidential candidacy fails. Time for a charm offensive and maybe some incentives.
He approached the truth so now he’s dead.
Oh yeah, and what about the people who can’t afford gap insurance so the hospitals will then be stripped of another 20%. It’s a dream concocted by the ignorant that everyone can be on Medicare.
Any “truth teller” would be severely questioned from both sides by being inside that collective. Their history in particular is not one of truth.
He was great in CSI:Miami!
John Delaney? You mean that wasn’t Tim Conway?
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel warned Democratic presidential contenders Monday
to lie if need be
Yep. That’s exactly his playbook. He pulled the same trick with the Blue Dogs. “Ie run as a rationale, sane, moderate. Then when you get to Congress vote for every far Left policy Nancy Pelosi tells you to”.
That worked once. Then the Blue Dogs got slaughtered in the next election. Shame on us if we fall for the same line of BS from Democrats again. It’s obvious the far left lunatics are the ones really running things in their party.
I think he looks more like that fag running around in the control tower in "Airplane".
I really hate that guy.
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