Clinton Gets It on Health Care
Her proposals are realistic and politically pragmatic; Bernie Sanders' aren't.http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/opinion-blog/articles/2016-02-12/hillary-clinton-gets-it-on-health-care-bernie-sanders-doesnt
Democrats should listen to Clinton on this one. Universal coverage should absolutely be the goal of any health care reform plan that is proposed. But health care proposals should also be realistic and politically pragmatic. Sanders' plan is not.
Medicare for all is not a new idea. A bill that would establish the program is pending in Congress now and has been for many years, but has never advanced. Even in a Sanders presidency, the situation is not likely to differ. A proposal like that would never make it through what is likely going to be a Republican-controlled House, since Republicans generally seek to shrink the role of government, not expand it.
But what if, in a few years, Congress was entirely controlled by Democrats? Consider that when the Democratic-controlled Congress was debating the Affordable Care Act, it couldn't even pass the "public option" – the government-controlled health care plan that was to have been included on the health insurance exchanges – because more conservative members opposed the expansion of government's role as a health care payer. A single-payer plan, like the one Sanders proposes, would include much more government involvement than the public option. The political will to pass his plan into law does not exist.
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seem to sum up the "strategy."
For the first to succeed, one would need sustained campaigns of supporters to show up in DC not simply once every four years, but for every single day. Most who are living from paycheck to paycheck could not devote that kind of constant and consistent effort. That is why we elect people to represent us in DC. Whatever happens in this election, support for Medicare for all will just not be there among elected representatives. In fact, GOPers will seize on any excuse to overturn the ACA altogether.
How would the second proceed at all? By Executive Order? With this particular group of Supremes, it will take about two minutes for one to be overturned. He would not be able to get anything regarding breaking banks up accomplished with the Congress he is likely to get. The very idea is totally antithetical to Republicans.
Don Quixote is a great figure of literature and certainly Bernie's end-goals are laudable. I share the goal of universal health coverage, as does anyone who cares about people. But we need more than tilting at windmills. Too many peoples's lives depend on progress being made, albeit incrementally. To set back progress that has been made WILL cost lives.
But then - I am preaching to the converted, LOL. 
you know who else wants to "Break Up the Banks" the US banks, Putin that's who.
