Pick me a Weiner?
OK, Cong. Anthony Weiner, one of the heroes in the health-care debate. We should give second-payer a second look, he says in HuffPost:
“If Medicare has been such a success, why not extend it? Why not have single-payer plans for 55 year olds? Why not have one for young citizens who just left their parents or college coverage?
“So far, the answers we hear to these questions have simply not been very convincing.
“At one town meeting the President responded that that he was worried about its “destructiveness.”
“Really? Americans would still go to the same doctor and the same neighborhood hospital. Sure, they would be able to delete the 1-800 number of their insurance company from their cell phones. And doctors would have to get rid of all those file cabinets full of paperwork while their assistants who spend time fighting with insurance companies would be able to actually speak to patients.
“But everyone would adjust, I’m sure.
“The real reason we haven’t seen the Democratic Party embrace the obvious and simpler idea is that it boils down to pure beltway politics.”
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