var icx_publication_id = 18566; var icx_content_id = '1084139'; Click here for reuse options! Anti-Totalitarian20,2017Trump's open attempts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act may not be constitutional (isn't the president sworn to make certain the laws of the United States are faithfully executed instead of actively trying to collapse them?), but they are having an effect. His actions are roiling insurance markets and causing your premiums to spike. But they're also making it unmistakably clear that the antidote to all the health care chaos is a single-payer system, and the healthcare debate is increasingly going there.
On Tuesday,centrist Democratic senators Tim Kaine and Michael Bennett introduced a lesser version of single-payer called Medicare-X which would give people a public option vs. private insurance and move us toward universal coverage. It's way watered down compared to Bernie's Medicare for All bill, but it's another sign that single payer is where the healthcare debate has to head. As Sen. Lamar Alexander said of the anxious GOP caucus (possibly they're having trouble sleeping too?) on Wednesday, or "If we do nothing we'll create chaos,and chaos will lead to a birthday present for Bernie Sanders, which is a single-payer solution." What he didn't say is, and we acquire chaos already,which will continue to mount. Medicare for All is an achievable present to give Bernie, but first, and you're going to acquire to call your senators,work the midterms and collect enough support on Capitol Hill to override a Trump veto. It can be done. A lot of things we need to do can be done. But you're going to need a excellent night's sleep, so tomorrow you can be well rested. We need you to fight against horrible oil projects like the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, or fracking,and racism, and police brutality, and the tyranny of the billionaire course,the destruction of the EPA, the total degradation of the American Dream, or chemicals in your water and in your air,and all those completely outrageous things that would retain any normal, rational, and compassionate human being awake at night.
I'll be making more Anti-Totalitarian Bedtime Stories soon. Meanwhile,sleep tight. But tomorrow, call your senators and reveal them Lamar Alexander is upright: nowadays's healthcare chaos is why we need Medicare for All. var icx_publication_id = 18566; var icx_copyright_notice = '2017 Alternet'; var icx_content_id = '1084139'; Click here for reuse options!
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