On your comments about Zeke Emmanuel, Medicare Advantage, and the like as contrasted with Bernie Sanders' proposals, I don't suppose I have to remind you that the Republicans now control the House.
Republicans have controlled the House for two months, during which time nothing I touched on here has changed.
Regarding Emanuel's enthusiasm for the private sector, it was his opinion that only that sector, in which he is significantly invested, can reform our health care "system," despite the actual, researched, documented fact that Medicare Advantage insurers and the Medicaid HMOs are siphoning off billions of tax dollars, sometimes outright fraudulently, to no good purpose. His opinion also did not arise during the past two months. Anybody who believes, as Emanuel appears to, that those players can be persuaded to implement changes that would save money on the scale that a single-payer plan would is delusional or gold-struck.
I was simply noting the unlikelihood of anything changing in the foreseeable future with respect to the system. I wasn't suggesting approval of the status quo.
Why would I think anything would change in the foreseeable future when nothing has changed in the reviewable past? The last time congressional Democrats got the greenlight from their leaders to take a good swing at universal health care was 50 years ago.
On your comments about Zeke Emmanuel, Medicare Advantage, and the like as contrasted with Bernie Sanders' proposals, I don't suppose I have to remind you that the Republicans now control the House.
Republicans have controlled the House for two months, during which time nothing I touched on here has changed.
Regarding Emanuel's enthusiasm for the private sector, it was his opinion that only that sector, in which he is significantly invested, can reform our health care "system," despite the actual, researched, documented fact that Medicare Advantage insurers and the Medicaid HMOs are siphoning off billions of tax dollars, sometimes outright fraudulently, to no good purpose. His opinion also did not arise during the past two months. Anybody who believes, as Emanuel appears to, that those players can be persuaded to implement changes that would save money on the scale that a single-payer plan would is delusional or gold-struck.
I was simply noting the unlikelihood of anything changing in the foreseeable future with respect to the system. I wasn't suggesting approval of the status quo.
Why would I think anything would change in the foreseeable future when nothing has changed in the reviewable past? The last time congressional Democrats got the greenlight from their leaders to take a good swing at universal health care was 50 years ago.