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Would you trust Dr. Elon to run Medicare for All? By ROB3RT March 25, 2025 6:38 pm Category: Politics (0.0 from 0 votes) Rules of the Post Write A New Article How To Post Here

For years, Progressives have been pushing the idea of Medicare for All. On face value, it sounds like a great idea. That’s probably why polls frequently identified a solid majority of Americans supporting the idea of expanding Medicare to the entire population. But when they learned they would have to give up their private or employer-based insurance, support for Medicare for All dropped to around 30 percent.

There could have been a lot of reasons, but most likely these people figured their existing health plan provided better coverage than Medicare.

I think most progressives thought that once Bernie and AOC pass Medicare for All, we’d have an awesome health care system run by people dedicated to making it work.

But what would have happened if Biden passed Medicare for All in 2021 now that Trump and Musk are taking a wrecking ball to the government? Just today, the Washington Post ran this headline:

Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency that runs the program into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.

Ask yourself this question. If you had cancer today, do you think you would live longer if you had employer-based health insurance or Elon’s Medicare for All?

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by Navy2711 on March 25, 2025 7:11 pm Not sure that's a fair question to pose. By asking about 2021 specifically, the question isolates medicare and drops it into a seething cauldron of corruption where of course it's going to fail. I mean, I get what you're saying. And the answer is, "I sure am glad I have private health care right now." But that's no reflection on socialized healthcare. If UHC had passed back in the 90s when it had bipartisan support, along with a handful of other progressive policies, we might not have arrived at the inequity and corruption that has brought us to a two-time Trump presidency. You could just as easily ask Canada or Great Britain, "Do you reeeally want to keep your government health programs, in light of the fact that at any moment your government could be seized by fascists who cut your health benefits and leave you dying of cancer? Hmmmmmmm? What do you think about THAT, Canadians??" You might not be making commentary on social health care at all, I just read it that way. The problem is not health care. It is the corruption of the American mind by a slow-working, but inexorable right-wing propaganda machine. by Navy2711 on March 25, 2025 7:15 pm Also, is anyone else VERY morbidly curious about how this is going to go down? How much WILL the American public take from Trump & Co.? Dying to see how his approval numbers are going to move. by ROB3RT on March 25, 2025 8:35 pm I had always thought messing with Social Security was the third rail of American politics, but I also thought America wouldn't elect a finger rapist president. I'm having to reconsider some of my old assumptions. I think it's entirely fair to ask the question about 2021. Bernie and Warren made it an issue during the Democratic primaries in 2019. They even browbeat Harris, Buttigieg and others into at least briefly supporting Medicare for All. Harris didn't survive, and Mayor Pete twisted himself in pretzels getting out of that pledge (ala "Medicare for Anyone who wants it"). I remember taking crap for supporting the public option from the same people who are once again climbing aboard the Political Suicide Express with Bernie and AOC. Universal Health Care might have had local bipartisan support in a few college town in the 1990s, but not in Washington D.C. The Republicans based their 1994 Congressional strategy on opposing Hillarycare. Although I asked a backward question, it's really about the future. Now that we've seen what can happen with one bad election, and how far Trump and the Republicans will go, can we ever trust the federal government again? Anything the Democrats pass, the Republicans can repeal once they get the political trifecta. How is it possible to move forward? Face it. We're fucked. Does that help answer your morbid curiosity? by oldedude on March 25, 2025 8:57 pm That's not in his wheelhouse. That's an HHS thing. You're making things up to create chaos. Are you working for the Antifada? by ROB3RT on March 25, 2025 10:55 pm Go Pedo your grandkids. I'm not interested in your opinion. by ROB3RT on March 25, 2025 11:04 pm Ok, that didnt come out quite the way I intended. Let me rephrase. Your opinion is of no interest to me. Please go away. And please stop being a pedo. Go To Top

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