(This diary is a bit of a trick. But I'm tired of trick or treating during recess, and getting trick after trick. That said:)
Medicare for All.
Sorry, let me repeat that for you.
Medicare for All.
Medicare for All.
Medicare for All.
What's that? A what panel? That makes no--
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I'm sorry, am I? I don't mean to be redun--
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Oh. I see what you did there. You tricked us. That's not--
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Alright, yes, we can agree to disagree. But we can't agree to agree on the particulars. There's no middle ground, I'm sor--
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Compromise? No, thank you for offering. See, we tried that. How did it work? It didn't. Yeah. No, I kno--
Medicare for All.
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Whoop, sorry, got a little ditto-headed there for a sec. What? Oh, I guess that's true. That IS the thinking person's position. The one that, you know, works. Yeah. No, it's the only one.
Medicare for All.
Thing is this: There's 46 million uninsured Americans. To insure them, we need a mandate. To make a mandate work, we need to have a public option. To make a public option work, we need to get the American public comfortable wi--
Medicare for All.
That's right. Something simple, clear, that can't be spun as obfuscation, insidious overcomplication, or brain-knotting charts that, because the television public won't bother to squint, could very well contain instructions for the terrorist fist jab that...sorry? Oh, right. I'm doing it again. Let me rephr--
Medicare for All.
A bumper sticker? Why, that's a swell--
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Let me see if I can distill a multi-trillion dollar global, inter-industrial, legally obtuse, profit-driven, life or dea--
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What? Oh, about $1.4 million per day. No, that's just what's visi--
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Am I losing you? Am I losing us? Maybe, instead of tossing all our cards on the--we could just use a 3x5--something catchy, elegant, clear. Something we could sell to the--
Medicare for All.
Wait!
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What did you just--
Medicare for All.
That's just a phrase I throw around to explain, mostly for myse--
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Really? You like it?
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It's clear? It's based on a comfortable precedent? And it's politically viable, you say? Why, that's--
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Well, ain't that some--
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If only we had the greatest political salesman since--
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Somebody who could turn a single phrase into the anthemic war cry of a generation of--
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Oh. Oh, ye--.
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I almost forgot about hi--
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You think he'd help us sell th--
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Me?
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Why would--
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Ohhh. You think he WANTS us to--
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Huh, now that's--
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Brother, can you spare a phone ca--?
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Just three words of your time. Yes, no trick. Just three--
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It's time to treat ourselves.
Medicare for All.