'If You Like Your Health Plan, Meet Kamala Harris
Her Medicare for All plan is a fat political target, if the GOP has the
wit to take it on.'

<https://www.wsj.com/opinion/if-you-like-your-health-plan-meet-kamala-harris-0e01df64>

'Vice President Kamala Harris’s run for the White House in 2019 may seem
like a political lifetime ago, and Democrats are hoping she can elude
scrutiny in a lightning campaign. But Ms. Harris is a California
progressive, and if you like your health insurance—ever heard that line
before?—you’ll want to look at the Vice President’s record.

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Harris campaign aides are whispering that she no longer supports
single-payer healthcare, but travel back to Ms. Harris’s Senate tenure.
She co-sponsored a bill from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that would set
up a single-payer system in the U.S. in four years. That would toss 150
million Americans who receive health insurance at work into a new
government plan, inevitably financed by ferocious tax increases across
every income level.

At a Democratic debate in 2019, a moderator put this question to the
primary contenders: “Many people watching at home have health insurance
through their employer. Who here would abolish their private health
insurance in favor of a government-run plan?” Ms. Harris raised her
hand.

The question wasn’t ambiguous, but Ms. Harris later claimed to have
misunderstood. Her own campaign plan suggested she did comprehend the
stakes but hoped voters wouldn’t. Her version of Medicare for All
extended the runway for a single-payer transition to 10 years. As a fig
leaf Ms. Harris said she’d retain some role for private insurers, which
would become the equivalent of public utilities.'

John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:m3iibjhudvrfoft6iiikk3c5ce7ldjj4d5@4ax.com:

> 'If You Like Your Health Plan, Meet Kamala Harris
> Her Medicare for All plan is a fat political target, if the GOP has
> the wit to take it on.'
>

Remember TrumpCare?

What happened?

Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> wrote:
> John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:m3iibjhudvrfoft6iiikk3c5ce7ldjj4d5@4ax.com:
>
>> 'If You Like Your Health Plan, Meet Kamala Harris
>> Her Medicare for All plan is a fat political target, if the GOP has
>> the wit to take it on.'
>
> Remember TrumpCare?
>
> What happened?

Be patient: it’s just two weeks behind his Infrastructure plan.

<https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/donald-trump-infrastructure-week/index.html>

But seriously, anyone who’s had to deal with real medical expenses & a
plethora of different providers & plans is painfully aware of what a
clusterfuck the US a healthcare system is.

And going digital has made the information silos even worse: I’ve had to
provide my own medical records to my own PCP when he changed networks
because he wasn’t allowed to transfer them out, and they digitally locked
him out of the records he had created in that IT system over the past 20
years (while I retained *some* patient-side access): the big corporate
providers are being incompatible and closed on purpose, as they see
competitive advantage for shareholder profits to prevent open data sharing…

…and when one dies, the HIPPA regulations on your data die too, so your
medical history records become 100% their corporate property. Now you’ll
start to understand why the coding systems are so insanely detailed (left
pinky, 2nd joint, etc), as well as why they dump all of that data entry
touch labor on your doctor’s home office staff.

-hh

Democrats are leading by wide margins in most Senate races. Montana and Florida offer the
only GOP opportunities to retain a seat. Everything else up for grabs is trending heavily
Democrat or are pending their primaries.

<https://www.270towin.com/polls/latest-2024-senate-election-polls/>

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