People know what Medicare is, they know it works, they know people who use it, some can’t wait to get to Medicare age to be able to choose their doctors at long last. Everyone who has withholding is already signed up for Medicare, so little time will be needed to make the switch. Win, win.

We just need to make sure it is sustainable without unfunded liabilities and rationing, right?

When LBJ wanted Medicare, he told the Congress what he wanted, he told the public what he wanted and what it would do for them. He held Congress to his plan. It passed.

Clarity would have helped. When I attended my OFA meeting, the major question was: What is Obama’s plan? What is the public option? The leaders did not know, could not tell us. People were frustrated.

Obama could decide what he wants, but I fear he does not want to own up to what he actually wants. I fear he wants to make sure the Big Insurance Parasites (BIP) get to keep high levels of profitability, only now with government subsidies to help them do that and customers mandated to purchase their insurance. There appear to be few cost controls built it, but Obama touts voluntary BIP agreements to lower the rate of increases.

I fear he did not believe, as he said in one debate, that health CARE is right.

I also fear he wants to be able to blame Congress, specifically Congressional Dems, if the plan he wants turns out to alienate the public and cost them a lot more than they expected.

There’s still time for leadership on a plan which will benefit the public, the nation, businesses: Single payer Medicare for All…with a robust private option.

Obama can declare the negotiations with the Repubs over, as they will not in any way acquiesce to a plan good for the people. Then, he says that while the BIPs will be “disrupted” a bit, for the good of the nation he now stands four square for Medicare for All.

People know what Medicare is, they know it works, they know people who use it, some can’t wait to get to Medicare age to be able to choose their doctors at long last. Everyone who has withholding is already signed up for Medicare, so little time will be needed to make the switch. Win, win.

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Thanks!

P.S. How do you put my comments in your replies. I am new to this blogging.

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P.S. How do you put my comments in your replies. I am new to this blogging.

That is what happens when you remove patient’s responsibility for medical cost decisions with low deductible plans.

I’m sorry, I don’t follow.