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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHealth Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill 'Medicare for All'
By Robert Pear Feb. 23, 2019
WASHINGTON Even before Democrats finish drafting bills to create a single-payer health care system, the health care and insurance industries have assembled a small army of lobbyists to kill Medicare for all, an idea that is mocked publicly but is being greeted privately with increasing seriousness.
Doctors, hospitals, drug companies and insurers are intent on strangling Medicare for all before it advances from an aspirational slogan to a legislative agenda item. They have hired a top lieutenant in Hillary Clintons 2016 presidential campaign to spearhead the effort. And their tactics will show Democrats what they are up against as the party drifts to the left on health care.
They also demonstrate how entrenched the Democrats last big health care victory, the Affordable Care Act, has become in the nations health care system.
The lobbyists message is simple: The Affordable Care Act is working reasonably well and should be improved, not repealed by Republicans or replaced by Democrats with a big new public program. More than 155 million Americans have employer-sponsored health coverage. They like it, by and large, and should be allowed to keep it.
Doctors, hospitals, drug companies and insurers are intent on strangling Medicare for all before it advances from an aspirational slogan to a legislative agenda item. They have hired a top lieutenant in Hillary Clintons 2016 presidential campaign to spearhead the effort. And their tactics will show Democrats what they are up against as the party drifts to the left on health care.
They also demonstrate how entrenched the Democrats last big health care victory, the Affordable Care Act, has become in the nations health care system.
The lobbyists message is simple: The Affordable Care Act is working reasonably well and should be improved, not repealed by Republicans or replaced by Democrats with a big new public program. More than 155 million Americans have employer-sponsored health coverage. They like it, by and large, and should be allowed to keep it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/politics/medicare-for-all-lobbyists.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
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Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill 'Medicare for All' (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Feb 2019
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dalton99a
(81,455 posts)1. Kick
CurtEastPoint
(18,639 posts)2. Greedy mofos.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)3. Yup
Its sad that America cannot have what every other industrialized country has.
It just proves that the well to do dont give a damn about any man, woman or child that isnt one of them.
Delmette2.0
(4,164 posts)4. Yep, It's all about the CEO'S and top (overpaid) management.
kacekwl
(7,016 posts)5. Ok then when are these lovely lobbyists
going to step up and fucking DEMAND the GOP stop screwing with the ACA and fix it ? It may be that or the health insurance future may be bleak. Choose one guys.
pecosbob
(7,537 posts)6. ACA was originally a conservative stopgap to save health insurers from going the way of the Dodo,
so what does the industry do? Everything it can to torpedo it. F*ck 'em. If you have health care investments, I would suggest divesting...like freaking now!