Eat your heart out, MSNBC.
Top House Democrat distances himself from 'single payer' push
Rep. Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, told reporters that the single payer approach is one of several ideas that Democrats are discussing, saying the party is united on principle of giving "access for Americans to offer quality, affordable health care."
But he also said that single payer has "significant administrative issues" and said that he and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are focused on "preserving the (Affordable Care Act) and making it work better."
This whole thing is Bernie relitigating his primary loss to Hillary and his supporters trying to force their agenda, again, on real Democrats.
And the Bernie supporters are already threatening to desert Dems running in 2018 who don't buy into Medicare for all.
What's wrong with single payor?
Too much market power enabling a government run near-monopoly or outright monopoly to dictate treatment and even research priorities according to political agendas.
And, anyway, what would a government run near-monopoly or outright monopoly of computer purchasing have made of Bill Gates and the computer revolution he started?
A wide open market enabled his success despite the total disinterest of the big computer firms.
And a wide open market of medical service buyers enables treatment and research decisions largely independent of political agendas.
Actual Democrats do not think capitalism and market competition are bad things.
They think those are good things.
And they do not at all think inequality is per se so bad a thing it must be at least bitterly regretted if not altogether ended.
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