Posted on 11/04/2019 4:41:36 AM PST by billorites
Put a fork in Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign —it’s over.
Now that she’s finally released details on her Medicare-for-All plan and its eye-wincing $52 trillion projected price tag, there’s no way that 160 million Americans who like their healthcare plans — including labor unions — will want to see them made illegal.
Nor will any rational citizen want to have critical health-care decisions being made by faceless government bureaucrats who will decide what doctor you can see, and what medical treatment or surgery you’re permitted to get — or not.
If Medicare-for-All is implemented, wave goodbye to consumer choice and say hello to rationed care and longer wait times to get medical treatment and prescription drugs.
But don’t take my word for it, take a glimpse at how socialized medicine is working in neighboring Canada.
Last year the Fraser Institute, an independent Canadian think tank, reported the median wait time to see a general practitioner is 8.7 weeks. To see a specialist is an additional 11 weeks. That’s nearly 20 weeks before a Canadian citizen can get the care they need. Now consider if you or a loved one has a life-threatening illness like cancer where the disease will likely advance while waiting months before the bureaucracy hopefully signs off on treatment.
Gaffes notwithstanding, Joe Biden is poised to benefit politically from Warren’s socialized medicine plan. He now appears like the adult in the room by opposing the elimination of private insurance.
In a statement released Friday, Biden’s campaign slammed Warren for promising her plan won’t raise taxes on the middle class.
“For months, Elizabeth Warren has refused to say if her health care plan would raise taxes on the middle class, and now we know why: because it does. Senator Warren would place a new tax of nearly $9 trillion that will fall on American workers.”
If anyone thinks allowing power hungry socialists to control the entire health-care industry — 20% of the U.S. economy — is a good idea or will go smoothly, just remember that here in Massachusetts, the government couldn’t even get a website to work during the Obamacare rollout.
And who can forget the 2015 inspector general’s report that found that 307,000 veterans may have died waiting for medical treatment at the VA? Not exactly confidence building.
But that’s not all. Warren’s Medicare For All plan will also destroy at least two million jobs. A stark reality that will buoy the campaigns of Biden and Pete Buttigieg, campaigns who by contrast come off as more sensible moderates.
Will we see a future Biden/Buttigieg ticket in the making? Only time will tell.
What we do know right now, is Warren’s days are numbered.
WE CAN’T PAY FOR THE MEDICARE NOW!!! Finding a good doctor who takes Medicare is NOT EASY!
Going back months, long before this Democrat Party 2020 POTUS candidate competition began...I immediately declared that Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren & Bernie Sanders would be a joke, that they, the three of them would be dead-in-the-water, politically....and it appears, I was right on the money with my prediction of their failure to cut-the-mustard!!!
Of course the Democrat Party Media fawned all over these losers for months...”SAD”!!! But....needless to say, they soon will be followed by the rest of the “sad sack” Democrat Party candidate losers, all of them including Madame, Hillary Clinton, who, if she runs again for POTUS, she will destroy the entire Democrat Party!!!
Heaven help us.
Once the government has control of all health care, the most direct method of controlling costs is to control salaries of those delivering it. If you think physicians will want to work longer hours for the same or less money, you are dreaming. There are other high paying jobs which don’t require long hours and incidental occurrences of death and disease to worry about.
“Try Medicaid...It’s damn near impossible.”
It’s pretty hard to get a doctor that will take Medicare patients also.
But see the government will force doctors to accept. It will threaten them with license being revoked. Felonies, jail and property being seized. Then to be followed by engineers, architects, nurses. ...you name it. The government is the enemy of the people.
Please, please nominate Joe, Where’s the Camera, Biden! Lizzy’s done and so is Sanders.
The ol’ “Slo-Jo/Ho-Mo” ticket. Gotta admit it’s catchy.
All they can see and will remember is free free free
“Biden/Buttigieg ticket”
Just imagine having your hair and your @$$ sniffed at the same time.
Where I come from 99.9% of doctors,including many,many good ones,take Medicare.
Just sayin'...
Forget policy, we'd be a laughingstock because of the names.
LOL!
And what Little Princess Sack O Sh!t neglected to say was Congress would be exempt from this dreck.
Agree.
Also - Students considering undergrad pre med biology majors will think long and hard about signing up for medical school with its debt and stress.
The fix is in for Tulsi. Those at the top know she is the most electable. She is also a full-bore socialist wrapped in an empathetic marketing blanket.
My son is 1st year Med school. It is insanely expensive.
“Biden/Buttigieg ticket”
Plugs/Buttplug
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