No. Two things can be true. Kansans can want Medicaid expansion and Medicare for all. Because one is a state system the other is federal. Medicaid expansion would alleviate some harsh realities for Kansans while the Federal Government works on Medicare for all.
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Or some other healthcare system that helps all Americans. Again due to preemption set up in the US Constitution there is a limit on what States can pass and enact. We can’t overrule Federal Law. It’s in the Constitution. Kansas can’t change that either.
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YES All state governments depend heavily on federal funding for healthcare -- all actual proposals for state-level single-payer rely on redirecting federal funding that already exists (because those states already passed Medicaid expansion) Which DHHS has the power to veto
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The State of Vermont passed a state-level single payer plan in 2011, Green Mountain Care, which languished for three years before being abandoned in 2014 because the state couldn't make up the $2 billion budget shortfall - with the assumption they could keep their federal funding
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Postmortems of why Green Mountain Care failed often bring up the uncertainty, requesting that legislators commit to raising taxes without being sure of how much they'd have to raise, questions or being able to weather financial storms without the power to run deficits
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The idea of creating a single payer program on a state level in just one state is very ambitious, it's been tried once and failed, and you talk about it like it's nothing You blithely dismiss the state/federal issues by saying you don't need federal funds AT ALL
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And you talk like you can just raise KS state taxes higher to compensate Because you haven't heard of "capital flight" and why it puts a harsh limit on state-level taxation in a country where states don't have hard borders
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Like even in the fantasy world where you get the whole legislature on board with just going to Wichita and taking all of Charles Koch's money right now, he can just move out of Wichita It's easy, he already has two other houses in other states
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This whole thing is such a fucking farce And you're going to talk like everyone yelling at you is just a shitlib who wants to sabotage Medicare for All and you're the only one who cares about healthcare when it's the exact opposite
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If you actually seriously gave a shit about healthcare, you would have LEARNED SOMETHING ABOUT IT at some point
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I hate everything about this farce and the national media that helped perpetuate it This contrived trolley problem "Establishment Dem vs progressive firebrand with skeletons in his closet" when it's actually "Establishment Dem vs grifting shitposter with skeletons in his closet"
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The skeleton is out of the closet! The skeleton is dancing around in the street like the old Mickey Mouse cartoon!
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