Democratic Primaries

The Democratic Party has been working toward that goal since fricking Harry Truman. Just what the hell do you think LBJ was trying to get us when he did all that fricking heavy lifting to get Medicaid and Medicare passed? Both of those programs came to be because he had a greater goal of building on them until everyone was covered under a single payer plan.

Did BS miss how Teddy Kennedy spent nearly all of the 70s and his 1980 presidential campaign promoting his national health insurance plan—one that had DETAILS and planning behind it?

What do you think Hillary was up to with that health care panel she headed right after Bill got sworn in? What do you think CHIP was under Clinton but yet another expansion, to fill in yet another gap?

What do you think the ACA is striving for, besides a bridge to the universal option?

None of us needed BS to “move the conversation” about it, when we’d been having it long before he latched onto the issue. The least he could have done was come up with a detailed plan for his hare-brained idea, rather than coughing up only an empty slogan for it—and one guaranteed to turn off the majority of Medicare recipients who know how costly it is to use it.

If the issue mattered so much to BS, he would have gotten off his ass long ago and come up with workable legislation to get what he preaches put into practice. Funny how he has plenty of time to run his mouth, but none to do the hard work of crafting legislation and then busting his hump to get it passed. That would require working with others, and giving something to get something and sometimes having to compromise or settle for a smaller goal to get something bigger later.

But, given how he has nothing but talk to show for anything, he must deem that as either too much effort or beneath him, somehow. It’s all or nothing with him. So he has only nothing to show for all his high-falutin’ “ideas” of what to do with healthcare—or anything else in his puny economic justice ideology.

And he really think that his attitude if all or nothing, my way or the highway, somebody else do the hard work I want done makes him presidential material?

It is to laugh.