100 Plus Democrats Sign On Bill that Would Wipe Our Private Health Insurance in Only Two Years

After the media’s decades advancing of “Medicare for All,” which is just an euphemism for socialized medicine, the position has become a more commonly accepted view of Democratic candidates.  Now over 100 House Democrats have signed on to a bill to make such happen.

Reason Magazine noted on the subject, “Yet Medicare for All’s rise has coincided with a dilution of the phrase’s meaning. To some, it still means strict single-payer, with all of the costs and disruption that entails; to others, it merely means some expansion of government involvement in health care, perhaps using today’s Medicare program for seniors as a foundation.

“The fuzziness of the label’s meaning has clearly helped aid its rise: Polls consistently show that Medicare for All is popular only until people are told what it would entail in its single-payer form—higher taxes and a massive increase in government spending, the end of Medicare as we know it today, and the swift elimination of current private health insurance, which covers nearly 180 million Americans. Even simply calling the idea of a government-run health plan “single-payer” significantly reduces public support.

“This reality of public opinion explains, for example, why Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Ca.) softened her position on single-payer after saying she would eliminate private health insurance, and why Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has taken to describing it as “aspirational.” Medicare for All has found success as an ambiguous slogan, but not as a specific policy, because the specific policy it is most associated with—government-run single-payer health insurance—is broadly unpopular.”