We will never see a president tackle healthcare first again

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Now we have this example from today.

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So much fricking winning, I just can't stand it.

MAGA!

The very first thing a Democratic President will do is push for Medicare buy-in and /or a public option.

Just because your party is too chicken-shite and ignorant to get anything done on health care doesn't mean the adults aren't ready to step in.

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Solid post and I concur. Surprised Bannon is fricking up so often

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Why are you surprised? His background is solely in opposition. He's great at getting people together to hate an idea, but finding a solution and leading is not his strength.

Can we finally agree that ObamaCare is all but indestructable. It has survived two major constitutional challenges that went all the way to the Supreme Court, and now has survived an attempt to replace it.

¡ObamaCare!

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The government should not have been involved in healthcare in the first place.

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Maybe, but now the vast majority of people are in some capacity subsidized by the government, either by the VA, Medicaid, Medicare, ACA exchanges or the one most people like to ignore, the subsidized employer sponsored insurance market.

Pull on any of those levers and you will have the weight of millions of people(in the case of eliminating the ESI tax subsidy, you will have 150 million people pissed off) coming down on you.

This is why health reform is so hard. But just getting the government out does not seem to be the will of the majority of people when faced with the consequences of that, even in an ideal state. Since it would mean a lot of the population could not afford care when they need it most and that would weaken the market in this country severely. Because as much as people hate the idea of paying for someone else, it also means paying for those people provide incentive for innovations and investments. A new expensive cancer drug is much less of a good investment if very few people can afford it.