Plan B for Obamacare: It’s Called ‘Medicare for All’

http://www.newdeal20.org/2011/02/02/plan-b-for-obamacare-its-called-medicare-for-all-34670/

If we’re forced back to square one by the Supreme Court, why not get it right?

My colleague, Bo Cutter, has noted the likelihood of continued challenges to health care reform in the wake of the recent Florida State Supreme Court decision to invalidate the entire Obamacare bill. Frankly, the legal attacks on the bill, even if driven by highly suspect and selfish motives, are unsurprising. They represent the inherent flaws of a systems that entrenches private insurance as the basis for our health care system.

Randy Wray and I have argued previously that the health care reform plan represented nothing more than a huge and unprecedented mandate to benefit private insurers. Under the new “reform,” 50 million people are being told they must turn over their paychecks to private companies. Of course this was bound to lead to court challenges. And it is hard to fault the Virginia and Florida courts for rejecting the mandate. The auto insurance analogy that has been deployed in favor of the mandate is flawed because NOBODY is forced to drive a car.

If we had wanted incremental improvements to HEALTH CARE there are nearly infinite combinations of small policy changes we could have pursued — without involving insurers at all. And Dems celebrating this great victory by Wall Street were both laughable and hugely disingenuous. After TARP and the Dodd-Frank “financial reform” bill, Obamacare represents yet another huge giveaway to large businesses whose 13 percent share of GDP (and the corresponding economic rents they extract) should have been vastly curtailed. (But hold on, it’s only a matter of time before they turn Social Security over to Wall Street.) Obamacare is a Private Health Insurers Bailout Bill (HIBOB).

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The poor corporate insurers and their bought and paid for Congressional 'ho's (and the DLC suckups) would have a fit if he tried.