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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.cd5566ad8694
Krauthammer says the current debate has shifted American belief into healthcare being a right, delivered to us in a single-payer system. Krauthammer doesn't support single-payer but, he acknowledges that single-payer is a reality. He can read the writing on the wall. He's honest enough to read the signs. 60% of Americans support single-payer healthcare. It's telling that Krauthammer, a conservative journalist sees the reality of the American dialogue.
If they pass the AHCA and its designed outcomes take effect, millions of Americans will lose healthcare and premiums for people with pre-existing conditions will skyrocket. After being betrayed by Trump, can the American constituency be expected to continue to act without reproach. People are hurting out there and Trump told them he would help them. the AHCA doesn't do that but, single-payer does. Single-payer is coming, the AHCA will be a minor speed bump, even Charles Krauthammer can see it.
A broad national consensus is developing that health care is indeed a right. This is historically new. And it carries immense implications for the future. It suggests that we may be heading inexorably to a government-run, single-payer system. It’s what Barack Obama once admitted he would have preferred but didn’t think the country was ready for. It may be ready now.
As Obamacare continues to unravel, it won’t take much for Democrats to abandon that Rube Goldberg wreckage and go for the simplicity and the universality of Medicare-for-all. Republicans will have one last chance to try to persuade the country to remain with a market-based system, preferably one encompassing all the provisions that, for procedural reasons, had been left out of their latest proposal.
Don’t be surprised, however, if, in the end, single-payer wins out. Indeed, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if Donald Trump, reading the zeitgeist, pulls the greatest 180 since Disraeli “dished the Whigs” in 1867 (by radically expanding the franchise) and joins the single-payer side.
Talk about disruption? About kicking over the furniture? That would be an American Krakatoa
Krauthammer says the current debate has shifted American belief into healthcare being a right, delivered to us in a single-payer system. Krauthammer doesn't support single-payer but, he acknowledges that single-payer is a reality. He can read the writing on the wall. He's honest enough to read the signs. 60% of Americans support single-payer healthcare. It's telling that Krauthammer, a conservative journalist sees the reality of the American dialogue.
If they pass the AHCA and its designed outcomes take effect, millions of Americans will lose healthcare and premiums for people with pre-existing conditions will skyrocket. After being betrayed by Trump, can the American constituency be expected to continue to act without reproach. People are hurting out there and Trump told them he would help them. the AHCA doesn't do that but, single-payer does. Single-payer is coming, the AHCA will be a minor speed bump, even Charles Krauthammer can see it.
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