Kamala Harris Admits “Medicare for All” Would Kill Private Health Insurance — but So Would a “Public Option”

Michael Kinsley memorably quipped, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed tosay. ” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) recently committed a gaffe when she admitted that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) Medicare for All proposal wouldoust close to 200 million Americans from their existing health insurance arrangements, a prospect that causes public support for Medicare for All toplummet from 56 percent to 37 percent. Harris thus helpfully illustrated why Sanders ’ proposal is, to be kind, so pie-in-the-sky bonkers that it would never pass Congress.Indeed, only way Medicare for All could happen is if free-market advocates focus all their fire on that proposal rather than the incremental and thus more politically feasible steps toward a single-payer system that Medicare for All supporters are offering. I am speaking in particular about the various proposals they are offering to create a so-called “public option, ” usually by expanding eligibility for Medicare or Medicaid.In 2009 and 2010, the Left used a public option as a stalking horse for ObamaCare. The Left demanded a public option and lured free-market advocates into focusing their fire on that proposal, only to have congressional Democrats drop the idea and pass ObamaCare as some sort of moderate or compromise measure.That went so well —or let’s just say, the bill passed—the Left is now using Medicare for All as a new stalking horse for the old stalking horse. Savvy Demo...
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