Greg Sargent ‏@ThePlumLineGS 3h3 hours ago .@NYTimeskrugman says we should stick with Ocare.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Greg Sargent ‏@ThePlumLineGS 3h3 hours ago
.@NYTimeskrugman says we should stick with Ocare, effectively siding w/Hillary over Bernie:

Health Reform Realities


Health reform is the signature achievement of the Obama presidency. It was the biggest expansion of the social safety net since Medicare was established in the 1960s. It more or less achieves a goal — access to health insurance for all Americans — that progressives have been trying to reach for three generations. And it is already producing dramatic results, with the percentage of uninsured Americans falling to record lows.

Obamacare is, however, what engineers would call a kludge: a somewhat awkward, clumsy device with lots of moving parts. This makes it more expensive than it should be, and will probably always cause a significant number of people to fall through the cracks.

The question for progressives — a question that is now central to the Democratic primary — is whether these failings mean that they should re-litigate their own biggest political success in almost half a century, and try for something better.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/opinion/health-reform-realities.html?_r=0

[PatrickforO]

1. We already HAVE something better that O Care.

It's called Medicare, and we could expand it to all Americans.