Shades of the Kentucky Derby, Jeff Greenfield is handicapping the horse race.
Just when you thought Individual-1 had won the troll sweepstakes by calling the debate “boring”, Jeff Greenfield wants John Delaney to be the realpolitik hero Democrat after the first debate. Because healthcare is a policy landmine (see Death Panels)
MSM and its pundits are having trouble interpreting the debates because idiots like Jeff Greenfield thinks Medicare for All is like Willie Horton. Otherwise providing care as a right rather than a privilege could become more important than hospital corporations. That’s the reason you have to listen to John Delaney and not think of the movie Airplane!
one candidate may have planted a land mine under (Elizabeth Warren’s) candidacy—and she wasn't even his target.
The moment came when the ten participants were asked, by a show of hands, who would dispense entirely with private health insurance. Only New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Warren signaled “yes.” That's when Rep. John Delaney, one of the least visible of the 24 announced candidates, weighed in.
After pushing back on the idea of taking something away from Americans that most are reasonably happy with, Delaney said this:
"Also it’s bad policy. If you go to every hospital in this country and you ask them one question, which is how would it have been for you last year if every one of your bills were paid at the Medicare rate? Every single hospital administrator said they would close. And the Medicare for All bill requires payments to stay at current Medicare rates. So to some extent we're basically supporting a bill that will have every hospital closed." And then he finished with a stinger about his electrician father on union health insurance: "He’d look at me, and he’d say 'Good job, John, for getting healthcare for every American, but why are you taking my healthcare away?' ”
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