That’s one of those general election issues where they only pull out of storage just before the general election. Like gay rights, abortion, wages. And fold them up neatly and stow them away until the next general election.
That’s one of those general election issues where they only pull out of storage just before the general election. Like gay rights, abortion, wages. And fold them up neatly and stow them away until the next general election.
1993 - Bill and Hillary - Just suggesting that they might be interested in a Public Heath option led to a backlash and the Democrats losing 54 seats in the house and 8 Senate seats in the midterms.
2000 - Al Gore - It wasn’t a huge pillar of Gore’s platform but he did campaign on his plan to extend Medicare to pay for prescription drugs, to work for a sensible universal health-care system
2004 - John Kerry - Honestly it really didn’t change his chances but it didn’t help.
2008 - Barrack Obama - He did win and his health plan, which was just a reskin of the Massachusetts health plan, and he even got it through (He did have a Trifecta). But in 2010 the backlash lead to Democrats loosing 63 seats in the house and 7 seats in the Senate.
2012 - It was a squeaker and Obama held on but the Kerry campaign was kind of handicapped by the fact that he was the One who pushed through the Massachusetts health plan.
2016 - Well all of the ‘Medicare for all’ candidates in the Democratic primaries lost to Biden so there too.
History didn’t start in January 2017 with Trumps election. This problem has been rotting in Americas heart for close to a hundred years
So, in summary, there’s not been a single time Democrats have actually pushed Medicare for all.
In each case the party was never united in the push, but in order to get that kind of unity, you have to change the entire makeup of the party. But in order to do that, we’d have to have a decades-long campaign to educate the public. We are kind of at the last part, but unfortunately the fascists have taken over.
Why did you just a bunch of things that aren’t Medicare for all?
Because no true Scotsman has proposed one. After all close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
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I hope that’s my tag now 😂
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