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Medicare-for-All is basically a moral position, rather than a technocratic or healthcare one. So it's not particularly important whether it "works" in narrow policy terms, since that's not necessarily the point
(excerpt below via @JVLast in @BulwarkOnline)
(excerpt below via @JVLast in @BulwarkOnline)
Since most people don't vote in their narrow economic interest or on "policy," the Left is (sometimes) in a bind. Here, I argue that the Left should move towards an "economics of meaning," where class critiques are a means to moral and identity-based ends: americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/left-p…
This is one reason I don't care for technocratic critiques of Bernie's or Warren's proposals, b/c they mostly miss the point. The point isn't necessarily whether something "works"—and the idea that something needs to "work" to be good itself depends on a set of value propositions
