I am genuinely curious about how #M4A candidates are going to navigate the political challenge of forcing hospitals and doctors, often major employers in their districts, to earn less. https://www.axios.com/medicare-for-all-doctors-hospitals-health-care-costs-8a175bd2-5d6e-4a1f-9352-f275a062ef1a.html … https://twitter.com/nealkwatra/status/1156588700438028290 …
it’s also uncharacteristically poor tactics for her - she could have kept lying about the long term goal, said she’s simply for a public option. does she just feel she needs to compete for the bernie votes?
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Public option doesn’t seem to be the same as what Warren is advocating. I think she straight up raised her hand to end employer plans in the last debate.
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no, you’re right, she did. my question is why did she do it? there are other ways for her to achieve the goal long term. this doesn’t seem politically advantageous.
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Well there’s the subsidy issue, which we talked about last time. Employer plans are subsidized at at least 2X the rate of Medicaid so if you made the govt more impartial, you’d effectively be changing coverage or cost in the employer plans
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