Yesterday:
Majority of House Dems call for impeachment inquiry.
Today (Friday)
Majority of House Dems cosponsor M4All.
Monday:
Majority of House Dems blow a raspberry at Nancy Pelosi.
Tuesday:
Majority of House Dems elect the Squad to replace Pelosi, Hoyer, et al.
Stranger things have happened!
No matter how it proceeds. This is one of Bernie’s legacies. In 2016 when he brought this issue publicly to the presidential platform - it was considered such an outlier.
Greed is a difficult obstacle to overcome.
Our Greedy Representatives have for the most part chosen Legal Bribes from Health Care providers over the demands and requirements of their Constituents.
However, persistence by Bernie is apparently overcoming the despicable behavior of our Legislators.
Bernie has almost single handedly embarrassed his colleagues into finally representing the people that elected them.
He has shown the country that the Health Care Industry is robbing us blind with sky rocketing premiums and throwing millions of Americans into Bankruptcy by refusing to pay our hospital bills.
Thank You Bernie your persistence is beginning to payoff.
BERNIE - LIZ - 2020
Count on a " foreign agent" to satirize US health " insurance" for profit.
But watch out! Harris has hijacked (yes, call it what it is) the name Medicare-for-all and replaced it with her own watered-down version. So, her rushing around to raise money from the 1% has ‘paid off’?
Just as the majority of House Democrats support impeachment. Now Nancy’ll have to block everything.
Harris just gave it an upgrade to M5All. She’s improving it, after listening to stakeholders! (She doesn’t elaborate on who was holding the stakes, and at whom the stakes were pointed.)
Would that it were
It should be noted that apparently none of the Clinton/Obama/Biden wing clones - like NY’s weasel Sean Maloney - have signed-on to Universal Not-For-Profit Single-Payer insurance. The link to all the hold-outs and shills for big-money, Insurance and big-pharma parasites shows who should pay the price for their betrayals and BS excuses for not supporting HR-676 or Sanders plan!
RepubliCon lite and neoliberal betrayal IS the problem!
A good perspective on Universal NFP Single-Payer as well as other issues and views.
" In the Greece of antiquity, Diogenes the Cynic could be found wandering the streets of Athens with a lantern, hoping to find an honest man. Last night, I needed my own lantern to find a Democratic front-runner who could coherently explain their health care plan"
" The League of Women Voters hasn’t run a presidential debate since 1988. More than 30 years down the rabbit hole of modern (corrupt) U.S. politics, the steady, professional hand of the League is sorely missed" - The League forced out by both parties working together!
I’m afraid that Progressives are setting themselves up for a huge fall. While I believe that the Democrats have a chance of winning without Sanders if they champion a Medicare-For-All platform. But if a Medicare-for-all bill is successfully passed, it will most likely be underfunded, watered down and allow private insurance companies to co-exist. Once the ‘Medicare-for-all’ bill is passed and doesn’t quite deliver what it promises due to the influence by corporate America, corporate America will be empowered by the publics dissatisfaction and fuel the attack by the MSM on “those foolish Lefties”. This is a similar tactic that the establishment has used to weaken the Post Office, welfare programs and education. Meanwhile the Pentagon gets more than what it asks for as we continue to work overtime in our production of weapons of mass destruction for a manufactured enemy.
Medicare-for-all must be part of a comprehensive package that seizes power from the 1% to ensure that we get a quality product. Anything less will result in universal healthcare being passed off as a short term “experiment” to reinforce the right wing myth that social programs are evil and impractical.
For universal healthcare to work it must contain the following provisions…
The super corrupt delegates are nor allowed to announce their support because it would upset the DNC’s dog and pony show by revealing that they already have selected Biden making the Democratic Con/vention what it is…A FARCE; A FIXED CON/VENTION!
It is quite encouraging to see that people are exposing the various tools that corporate media uses to dumb down the population at large. It makes me think that if the South had won the Civil War, what the news would look like today.
“Here is a heart warming story of a benevolent plantation owner who donated his old horse stable to his pregnant slaves” or “President Jefferson Davies today announced a ten-hour work day for all slaves to combat criticisms of good ole white businessmen abusing their workers”.
Until the average American understands “How” the corporate media lies to them, the population will be unable to make rational political choices. Clips like the one offered by theoldgoat is the first step to educating the public on how to break the chains of bondage.
The last time Ds had majorities in both houses of Congress—AND the presidency!—we got Heritage/Romneycare. I’m not hopeful.
When Representative Jayapal introduced the Medicare for All bill back in February she had 106 co-sponsors. She has added 12 in the last 5 months including four in June and four in July. Kudos to her organizing abilities on this - I hope she is interested in becoming Speaker in 2021.
When we got ObaminableCare, the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, but the White House was occupied by a Trojan horse. When original Medicare - and the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act - were passed, Lyndon Johnson was the President, and he was famous for applying the ‘Lyndon Johnson’ treatment to members of Congress who needed some help deciding how to vote. Bernie Sanders is like the good version of LBJ far more than he is like that Trojan horse. Furthermore, if Bernie is the Democratic nominee, M4All and other progressive issues will dominate the campaign, and all of the voters who came out to support ‘hope and change’ in 2008 will return to the voting booths. Bernie may have coattails big enough to flip or at least narrow the Senate. We need to work on getting Bernie nominated despite the Democrats’ anti-democratic (large D, then small d) establishment. Winning will feel very good, and it’s worth the effort.
We need thousands of people handing out, and putting up handbills describing how a plan would work, and how much less it would cost. An informed public is likely needed for the people to rally, and overshadow the negative forces.
Yes!
Starting is easy. Anyone can make ten copies of the handout and distribute them to the neighbors - at a cost of about a dollar.
I’m sure that there’s a decent handout somewhere on the internet. Whoever finds it first should post a link (and that person will get 50 hearts, so the work will not go unrewarded!)
“If” being the operative word.
And if those two major-party clowns hadn’t siphoned off all those votes from Citizens Party presidential candidate Dr. Barry Commoner in 1980, we’d have had almost 40 years of progressive POLICIES to build on.
Sigh…
IMO, false equivalence, guns-vs-doctors. US healthcare is swimming in cash, drowning in cash, $3.6 trillion a year. The money’s already there, already being spent — at current levels of taxation and military spending.
Economic analyses across the political spectrum estimate net cost savings of $200 billion to $500 billion a year. The more accurate and productive conversation should be: how should we as a nation spend or allocate this huge annual “health dividend” once we have single-payer M4A in place?
Let’s focus on THAT debate. Let’s see what the talking heads on tv, the GOP and corporate Dems all say about THAT.
