Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
Some people are so in love with Socialism, they can't see what that label evokes in 95% of American voters. Generations of voters will have to die out before the specter of Soviet Socialism is forgotten.

As I said before, I'm in favor of British-style National Health: See? No "socialism" in the name at all, but entirely accessible to all and financed by taxes. My aim is get everybody healthcare, not to force everybody to love socialism.

As for "Medicare For All", that phrase can mean lots of things to different people. I know very well that any Medicare For All plan we would actually end up with would be much more like the current Medicare, but with younger people paying to buy into it, than Bernie's plan.

That's why I favor a "boiled frog" approach of adding a Public Option to ACA and fixing the holes in it, in 2021. Let that cook for a while, and since the public option would be 15% cheaper than any other for the same medical group memberships, most ACA enrollees would soon be selecting it. Then employers would switch their employees to the ACA public option to save money. After 5 or 10 years, everybody would be using the public option. And of course, subsidies would be increased over time. Voila: Boiled frog.
Makes sense to me. It also wouldn't in my opinion take many folks out of their comfort zone. No 2010 in 2022.

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.