BernieCare rises as ObamaCare lives and TrumpCare falls
03/10/17
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The issue before us is how to fix ObamaCare.
The long overdue answer? A single-payer healthcare that I would call BernieCare.
Sanders, to his eternal credit, has been right about healthcare from the beginning. To a large degree, he picked up the torch originally carried by the late and great senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), who spent decades supporting forms of national health insurance.
Under BernieCare, healthcare would be a right for all Americans to enjoy, not merely a profit center for giant insurance companies or Big Pharma.
Under BernieCare, the highly popular and brilliantly successful Medicare would be the model for a Medicare-for-all system that would shift power to consumers and patients, universalize insurance coverage and lower insurance premiums and drug costs for customers.
BernieCare will prevail because it would keep the beneficial provisions of ObamaCare while extending the benefits to far more people at a lower cost to customers.
Now Republicans are preparing to attack the coming analysis of the Congressional Budget Office, which has not even been offered yet, because they know the TrumpCare numbers will add up to a disaster for customers that will raise the deficit for the nation.
By contrast, Sanders wants to strengthen — not undermine — Medicaid, and unlike congressional Republicans, Sanders wants to universalize — not privatize — Medicare.
If TrumpCare passes, there will be an electoral revolution against Republicans in 2018 and 2020 elections as voters feel the pain from the GOP plan. If TrumpCare is defeated, Republicans have nobody to blame except themselves for spending seven years running against the increasingly popular ObamaCare without having any alternative to repeal or replace it.
As TrumpCare sinks, BernieCare will rise, keeping the best of ObamaCare and building new bridges to true and revolutionary healthcare reform after the great debate that is only beginning and long overdue.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/323344-berniecare-rises-as-obamacare-lives-and-trumpcare-falls
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