Yeah. Bogus and worthless. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Nope.
I think that for a lot of liberals, including myself, medicare for all is more or less a code for UHC. The result is more important than the method.
Apparently he was “for” single-payer until it started looking possible & now is against it, preferring a “Medicare buy-in.” That’s not universal.
I am done with Sherrod Brown.
No, again, he is in favor of single-payer health insurance. He has been for quite some time. Right now, he’s looking for a compromise, rather than a bill that wont pass the senate and would get vetoed even if it did.
And I think a lot of people are severely underrating the possibility that there simply won’t be an ability to pass any big legislation at all, in which case all the arguments over what form the massive healthcare overhaul should take will all be in vain. Legislatively, it doesn’t really matter who is president if Joe Manchin is the 50th vote in the Senate (which is arguably one of the better outcomes for Democrats).
Not exactly a scientific survey but the wisdom of this crowd method did pretty well with its predictions in the midterm contest. “We” have a person who is not even announced and who barely registers on most polls in our final. He’s my (by a nose) preferred candidate but I am actually quite surprised and I am not sure what it says about the wisdom of this crowd.
“Medicare for all” is getting a lot of talk because it’s viewed as the most politically feasible way to get single-payer health care. Medicare is hugely popular across the political spectrum, so framing single-payer as an expansion of Medicare makes it look more popular to the people, even though there are other ways of getting the same effect that are much less popular.
I’m a bit late to this thread so i’ll just note a few items.
This is not appropriate for this forum. Please resist the urge to lash out.
Perhaps I am missing something or this is just too cool for school, but my tolerance of these types of pithy content free snark is waning. If you want to continue in this vein your signal to noise ratio in general is going to need to dramatically improve.
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Any bets on whether or not the SD March Madness winner will ever throw his hat in the ring? I’m beginning to think he doesn’t have the fire in his belly (remember Colin Powell when he was worth thinking about?) for it.
It is ironic that the Doper’s Choice hasn’t even declared yet.
It’s also troubling that the number of votes in the finals is half the votes in the first round. Hope it doesn’t work that way for real.
My guess is that as people’s favorite lost they stopped caring about this poll. It’s probably (hopefully) not going to happen in the election.