A lot of people say they don't want government in healthcare. But they love their Medicare. Which is government in healthcare.
So why not call what the majority of Americans want "Medicare For All"?
Because that's what it would be.
I got the idea from this now-well-known incident.
Someone reportedly told Inglis, "Keep your government hands off my Medicare."
"I had to politely explain that, 'Actually, sir, your health care is being provided by the government,'" Inglis told the Post. "But he wasn't having any of it."
And this gem from Arthur Laffer on CNN.
"If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government."
Just wait until the government gets hold of Medicare and medicaid. What's next? Government-run military? Thank you, Arthur Laffer. That's the same Arthur Laffer that invented The Laffer Curve, the bedrock of supply-side economics which Nobel prize laureate James Tobin described as "the 'Laffer Curve' idea, that tax cuts would actually increase revenues, turned out to deserve the ridicule with which sober economists had greeted it in 1981".
Medicare For All. It's what the people want.