Establishment vs Bernie by Nancy OhanianJudging by the polls, the roll-out for Status Quo Joe went well-- especially (and ironically) with black women. According the new poll released yesterday by Morning Consult, Biden is the top choice among all men, all women, white men, white women and black men and black women...
"Hell hath no fury," wrote Michael Corcoran at Truthout on Tuesday, "like a coalition of health care lobbyists scorned."The insurance industry, Big Pharma and other stakeholders in the status quo of "healthcare" spend immense amounts of money annually on lobbying and on legalistic bribes to politicians. To stop Medicare-For-All...
"Look," no one serious ever said, "we can't put the Mob out of business because it will throw so many people out of work." It's true. If the Mob were shut down, all kinds of people doing work that, in varying degree, is anti-social. Insurance companies are also doing work that is anti-societal. Yet it is widely thought that if they are phased out as an anachronism for another, more effective means of paying for healthcare, too many people will be unemployed.
"Look," no one serious ever said, "we can't put the Mob out of business because it will throw so many people out of work." It's true. If the Mob were shut down, all kinds of people doing work that, in varying degree, is anti-social. Insurance companies are also doing work that is anti-societal. Yet it is widely thought that if they are phased out as an anachronism for another, more effective means of paying for healthcare, too many people will be unemployed.
I've been all wound up this week in getting to know a whole bunch of new candidates, trying to suss out, in the immortal words of Chris Hayes "what they'll fight for" and "who they'll fight for." The other day I was on the phone with a young attorney, Marqus Cole, in Gwinnet County northwest of Atlanta. Healthcare is a big deal for him and we got down to discussing Medicare-For-All.
Medicare-For-All original co-sponsor Josh Harder (CA) raked in a stupendous $800,000 in the first quarter. Just imagine how much he would have raised if he was also co-sponsoring the Green New Deal and a $15 minimum wageIf the Democrats don't deliver on the expectations voters have of them-- Medicare-For-All, a $15 minimum wage, the Green New Deal, etc-- 2022 is going to be a banner year for the GOP-- akin to 2010.
Yesterday, Washington Post reporters Paul Kane and Rachael Bade wrote that Nancy Pelosi is skeptical of Medicare-For-All and that she questions whether Medicare-for-all can deliver benefits as good as Obamacare. I literally have never met anyone using Obamacare who likes it and I have never met anyone using Medicare who doesn't love it. So I'm confused about what Pelosi is babbling about, when she said on Thursday Medicare-For-All might be too expensive and that she'd rather build on Obamacare. "I’m agnostic," she said slyly. "Show me how you think you can get there.
But we can't afford to expand health careTrump is celebrating his possible victory-- we'll see what's true and what's not when the whole Mueller Report is released instead of just a GOP press release from Barr's office-- by kicking millions of poor people off healthcare. Again, through Barr, Trump had told a reactionary Texas appeals court (the 5th Circuit), he wants the whole Affordable Care Act shit-canned.
