Via the New York Times. Interesting:
“I’m also in favor of what’s called the public option, so that people can buy into Medicare at a certain age,” Mrs. Clinton said at a campaign event in Virginia on Monday.
Mr. Sanders calls his single-payer health care plan “Medicare for all.” What Mrs. Clinton proposed was a sort of Medicare for more.
The Medicare program currently covers Americans once they reach 65. Beneficiaries pay premiums to help cover the cost of their coverage, but the government foots the bulk of the bill. Mrs. Clinton’s suggestion was that perhaps younger Americans, “people 55 or 50 and up,” could voluntarily pay the full cost to join the program.
[…] Mrs. Clinton has been proposing a range of health policy overhauls to preserve and expand the Affordable Care Act. She has proposed expanding financial protections for people with high health care costs and expanding subsidies to help middle-income people buy their own insurance. She also has proposed a package of policies to lower the price of prescription drugs.
[…] Mrs. Clinton’s new Medicare plan, first reported by Bloomberg News, takes another step by proposing that Americans still in their prime working years be given the opportunity to obtain the exact same government insurance that is provided on a universal basis to their older peers.
[…] Moving more older adults into the Medicare program could have the effect of lowering insurance costs for younger people, as Mrs. Clinton suggested. But the exact dynamics would depend on the details of how the program was structured.
Step by step she moves slowly to the left. It ain’t enough or fast enough.
Conservative columnist P.J. O’Rourke recently wrote, “Hillary’s wrong on everything. But she’s wrong within the parameters of the established norms.”
And that, dear Democrats, is the problem with Hillary.
She goes along, with the plutocracy, to get along.
Republican voters recognized that same fatal flaw in their own establishment presidential candidates and chose political outsider Donald Trump.
Hillary, like Obama, operates within the parameters of establishment norms.
Bernie thinks outside the box and is not afraid to stick his finger in the eye of the plutocrats.
Medicare for all!
Progress. Let the insurers compete against Medicare on the “exchanges!”
Lucy, we’re not going to fall for that line again, so, please, just step away from that football….