I am so sick at heart right now, between Haiti and the MA election, and the reactions to those things, that I almost am incoherent. So please forgive this. I'm a liberal old person who is watching all my dreams for this world just go down a sewer.
But grab some good from it, somehow: can we do Medicare for all through reconciliation? Can we find a way to just do a breakeven cost plan to let people buy in to Medicare on a sliding scale fee?
I'm not the most knowledgeable person in the room about reconciliation, so maybe one of you is just going to pop up and say "it can't be done" and I'll say "never mind" and go back to being curled up in a ball.
But if we could do it. If we just could.
People understand Medicare and they like it, by a pretty wide margin.
It seems to me to be the ONLY way to do reconciliation and grab success from the jaws of defeat.
Do it fast, give us all Medicare, and any protest about Scott Brown not being seated will die away. After all, there are other bills he's not voting on either.
If you can't find the balls for this, DC, you are useless and you just ought to pack your bags and slink home.
Massachusetts punished Dems for not giving them much of what they want and understand. Brown promised both and he won. Now they've seized the meme by this "can't vote on health care til he's seated" cr*p. Take the meme back with Medicare and reconciliation.
I'm just saying. People like and understand Medicare. Just give them that. Nothing more than a Medicare buy in with poverty subsidy. That's it. It's a clear win. A huge cheer would arise all across the country, and the Republicans have been falling all over themselves "defending" Medicare, so what are they going to be able to say about it?
Oh, never mind I know they'll come out with the usual but we will have seized the day and the people's hearts.