@Pr0gr3ssv3Chng3 @bowiegrrl11 @CandicePDX It bothers me that employer-provided health insurance was allowed as a perk when wage controls were in place for WWII and then became entrenched for professionals and union workers thereafter
@Pr0gr3ssv3Chng3 @bowiegrrl11 @CandicePDX I like that Johnson was able to get Medicaid and Medicare passed, even though they aren’t perfect. They expanded coverage and thereby saved and improved lives
@Pr0gr3ssv3Chng3 @bowiegrrl11 @CandicePDX It bothers me that a Democratic Congress and Nixon thought this could be improved by HMOs and for-profit insurance companies
@Pr0gr3ssv3Chng3 @bowiegrrl11 @CandicePDX It bothers me that this grew into a large, inefficient rent-seeking industry
@Pr0gr3ssv3Chng3 @bowiegrrl11 @CandicePDX It bothers me that all of Hillary Clinton’s hard work was wasted in 1993-94
@Pr0gr3ssv3Chng3 @bowiegrrl11 @CandicePDX It bothers me that we don’t have universal single payer insurance and it bothers me that we don’t have the equivalent to the NIH (which has much better outcomes than US, and would be great if UK fully funded it)
@Pr0gr3ssv3Chng3 @bowiegrrl11 @CandicePDX But what bothers me even more is a purity-test slogan — why Medicare for all? Why not Medicaid, which has lower deductibles in most cases?
@Pr0gr3ssv3Chng3 @bowiegrrl11 @CandicePDX The goal is to get there. Yes, the ACA is basically the Heritage Foundation alternative to Clintoncare. But that was before Heritage went completely wingnut. Their work was based on the Swiss model — not the most efficient, but it gets to full coverage if not sabotaged
