Sanders to introduce single payer medicare for all bill

[Sonikku]

I hate to say it, but at this point I think it may be time to let the GoP repeal Obamacare. It could never have worked as good as single payer, but it was better than nothing because it got 20 million healthcare. But, it's not going to work for much longer in any capacity with the GoP actively sabotaging it.

So let them repeal it.

Conservatives are convinced that healthcare costs remained flat before obamacare came around and suddenly they've gone up ever since. They're convinced that once it's repealed, their premiums and deductibles and copays are going to go down. Well, it ain't. But they can't figure that out on their own. Only by repealing Obamacare and allowing the healthcare costs to continue to skyrocket can a ticking time bomb be created that will ultimately culminate into the gigantic an unmitigated collapse of the healthcare industry.

I speak of the point at which we as a nation can literally not continue any longer until a massive overhaul becomes impossible to put off an instantly longer. When that happens, conservatives will have no one to blame, what with obamacare having been repealed a decade or so earlier. They will have no choice but to accept being dragged into the 20th century of healthcare systems along with the rest of the 1st world as to do otherwise by that point will simply be impossible to keep the costs sustainable.

That is the only path to a single payer system that I can see. It is tragic that the millions with preexisting conditions are going to have to suffer in the intervening years, but faced with propping up a failing system or to accelerate running it into the ground to accelerate starting over, I'm inclined to favor the latter.

 

[trenchfoot]

What needs to happen is for the working class Repubs, and especially their base of which constitutes a majority of hourly paid folks and folks who actually would greatly benefit from UHC to really feel the hurt that their political leaders are planning to hammer them with.

As Sonniku suggested, the Repubs that are currently in control of the gov't, in all of their greed driven splendor, should pass their supposed "health care bill" that would give their very wealthy benefactors a nice tax cut and take away the health care from millions of common folks to make it happen.

Let the Repubs and Trump whose highest priority is to pass something, anything that will allow for the tax cuts for the wealthy that the repeal/replace will give them (as an critically integral part of an even larger tax cut package for the wealthy) and let the Dems be ready with a workable alternative as they scream bloody murder how the Repubs have sold out the working class in order to bless the wealthy with more largess from the treasury.

Let Trump and his fellow Repub sock puppets show their hand in this most visible and impactful way as to how they are purposefully ripping off the working class in order to favor their wealthy benfactors. Let them further make it blatantly obvious of the class warfare they are perpetrating against their own working class constituency via their "tax reform" legislation that they are about to flim flam their middle class poor with.

Let the Dem legislators who are in the know also make it loudly and clearly known how the Repubs and Trump are quietly waging this war in so many other ways as they make changes to law and policy at every level of gov't that they can corrupt.