That was pretty much what I thought. Also, the longer it takes to implement the more support will diminish. The more complex it is, the more misinformation will work and I can't imagine it being a simple solution.El Guapo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 11:13 am
I believe that it has majority support in a lot of states *now*. But it hasn't really entered the public consciousness all that much, and more importantly hasn't been the subject of sustained attack yet. Once it gets into the partisan woodshed, the support is going to drop precipitously (mainly because support from GOP aligned voters is likely to drop to minimal levels).
I am sure that it makes sense for some Democrats (maybe even most) to run on Medicare for all in 2018. But the closer it comes to a real proposal that could be passed, the lower its support is going to get.
Other than the bad pun, that seems like a program I'd support, at first glance anyway. I think Americans like options, at least I doFireball wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:36 pm
The main obstacle to a Medicare for All program is that people with employer-provided coverage generally really, really like it. A better solution that moving everyone to Medicare might be what the Center for American Progress has proposed: moving everyone *without employer coverage* to Medicare.
. Give people options beyond the government and support will come around. Eventually. I liked the ACA because it tried to use market forces as a mechanism. Not so much because I believe in the mystical, all-powerful market, but because it should have garnered support across the board. With that in place it could have been tweaked and modified as needed, cost reduction measures implemented and it could have been something good for the country. But with Republicans being nimrods on it, that never happened. Now people are starting to support it more and just in time to see it diminished. 
Offering Medicare to more people, even as an option to buy for businesses and people otherwise able to afford their own would seem to work in a similar manner. The government doesn't have to control everything, but just enough to control costs and ensure everyone has the healthcare they need. If nothing else, if the Democrats brought it up as legislation, maybe the Republican position would default back to the ACA (Republicans: Medicare for all is socialism, we have a perfectly good system in the ACA!)and give it needed fixes until a more universal solution would be supported. I do think the country will get there, I just happen to think a significant number of us are too stubborn to jump straight to it.
