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JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)
5. Use the Nike method.
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 10:00 AM
Feb 2019

Just Do It.

"We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard." And because they are the right thing to do. America used to be a nation that did the right thing even when it was hard to do. Even when it cost us a tax increase to do it. Even when it cost us the lives of our soldiers and the wealth of our treasury to do it. We did the right thing.

Now we will do the right thing only if it doesn't cost us any money. Only if it isn't "too disruptive." Only if we can get a tax cut at the same time.

Switch from a "for profit" system to universal health care? The question isn't whether we can or not. The question is whether or not we, as a nation, have the moral fiber to do it.

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Very simple - Allow open Enrollment in Medicare for Anyone zaj Feb 2019 #1
Medicare for anyone who wants it. kennetha Feb 2019 #2
There is a reason the industry pushed back so hard on Medicare Option zaj Feb 2019 #6
It will only be "extraordinarily complicated" if the lobbyists write the law Property Question Apr 2019 #26
First homegirl Sep 2019 #30
Time to buy off homegirl Sep 2019 #29
Then there's Sherrod Brown's idea Ohiogal Feb 2019 #3
Yes and would be pretty easy to implement...but Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #9
Incrementally zipplewrath Feb 2019 #4
Excellent. Not sure quite understood step one tho Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #10
Yes zipplewrath Feb 2019 #12
Use the Nike method. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #5
Universal Healthcare is not necessarily the same as single payer medicare for all. kennetha Feb 2019 #7
Of course it's not the same. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #8
I hear you. Can you think of any possible way Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #13
No. You cannot make hard things easy. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #17
Can't a major initiative be fully realized in the future Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #20
Good is the enemy of excellent. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #22
Defined by wiki....for those of us in the learning stage Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #14
Yes, except we don't want the "financed by taxes" part. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #18
How are you suggesting it be paid for? Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #19
Taxes. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #21
Isn't it the only source of money? How about tariffs :) I read someone suggest Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #23
Well, MMT says otherwise. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #24
Who said that? Crickets? Property Question Apr 2019 #28
That's probably where we are now? Our candidates Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #11
Exactyl my point. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #16
Just do it! YES!!! Property Question Apr 2019 #27
PNHP generally has good information area51 Feb 2019 #15
Many candidates have signed onto the Jayapal plan. Buzz cook Apr 2019 #25
I am in the VA healthcare system. It is a single payer healthcare system for 9 million veterans. marie999 Oct 2020 #31
Original cause franzwohlgemuth Dec 2020 #32
Yes, the health care industry they probably mapped out on a cocktail Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2020 #33
Exactly franzwohlgemuth Dec 2020 #34
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