Posted on 08/11/2024 3:17:37 PM PDT by karpov
Vice President Kamala Harris’s run for the White House in 2019 may seem like a political lifetime ago, and Democrats are hoping she can elude scrutiny in a lightning campaign. But Ms. Harris is a California progressive, and if you like your health insurance—ever heard that line before?—you’ll want to look at the Vice President’s record.
Harris campaign aides are whispering that she no longer supports single-payer healthcare, but travel back to Ms. Harris’s Senate tenure. She co-sponsored a bill from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that would set up a single-payer system in the U.S. in four years. That would toss 150 million Americans who receive health insurance at work into a new government plan, inevitably financed by ferocious tax increases across every income level.
At a Democratic debate in 2019, a moderator put this question to the primary contenders: “Many people watching at home have health insurance through their employer. Who here would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan?” Ms. Harris raised her hand.
The question wasn’t ambiguous, but Ms. Harris later claimed to have misunderstood. Her own campaign plan suggested she did comprehend the stakes but hoped voters wouldn’t. Her version of Medicare for All extended the runway for a single-payer transition to 10 years. As a fig leaf Ms. Harris said she’d retain some role for private insurers, which would become the equivalent of public utilities.
Most dishonest was her claim to exempt those earning less than $100,000 from tax increases. Ms. Harris proposed a stock transaction tax that wouldn’t put a dent in the $30 trillion over 10 years that single payer could cost under mid-range estimates.
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Comments at the source BUMP!
WSJ, the last refuge of journalism
No one likes their “health plan” - at least, no one who has to use it.
Great. Then we’ll all wait 6 months to see a doctor - maybe. Just like Canada
She’ll probably be pimpin’ Jamaican Voo Doo health care or Indian Style which is so bad, Indian Doctors come to America to learn medicine and refuse to go home to the craphouse.
Sadly, if Kamala decides she wants to nationalize healthcare the way Obama tried to do, Kamala will be successful.
Conservatives are not going to protest like they did in 2010. And as such, since nobody wants to protest, they can nationalize healthcare at pleasure.
Evil succeeds when the good people are eager to do nothing.
Personally I find it terrifying. But I recognize that’s the mood of the people I’m around. This isn’t the Good tea party era.
You are biased — most of the doctors who came from India went to medical school there, which is where they “learned medicine”.
That was 14 years ago. Demographics are different today. Eventually, we'll have a version of NHS or Canadian Health Care.
So, why didn’t they stay there. You missed my point.
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