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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (76557)6/11/2018 5:45:29 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 353995
 
Dems were DREAMING for years

They were not dreaming of Obamacare. They were dreaming of single payer. Obamacare was the kludge that resulted from dreams meeting reality, the product of what was doable, a design by committee.

You know for certain I don’t want to see single payer, but I don’t see that as the default outcome.

And you know for certain that my expressions do not derive from advocacy for single payer.

The reason it's the default is that there is no competition. The only competition for single payer is what's left of Obamacare and efforts are underway to destroy that. If there were other alternative approaches out there beyond selling insurance across state lines and health savings accounts, we would have heard of them. I see absolutely no indication that anyone is working on coming up with a replacement once the vestigial Obamacare has officially bit the dust. As we have discussed many times, Obamacare has solidified public expectations of something more generous than the status quo ante.

That Trump can pull something out of his hat is magical thinking. Hence, the default. Either come up with something else or get used to single payer. And if they don't come up with some alternative scheme, the credit or the blame for single payer will be on the R's because they ceded the issue.
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