Single Payer Health Care Pros and Cons

Rich Terrell

Heritage: House Democrats Unveil Plan to Bring Total Government Control Over American Health Care  . . . "Ken Thorpe of Emory University, formerly an advisor to President Bill Clinton, estimates that the federal taxation needed to finance the Sanders’ plan would amount to an additional 20 percent tax on workers’ income, and more than seven out of ten working families would end up paying more for health care than they do today. 
"The federal spending and taxation needed to fund the new House bill would certainly be larger. Beyond the potential impact of the bill on the nation’s deficits and debt, independent analysts and economists will also focus laser-like on the size and impact of the new federal taxes on individuals and families at various income levels. 
"Simply taxing “The Rich” will not cut it. 
"The House cosponsors of the Medicare for All Act intend a rapid transformation of American health care.
"Under section 106 of the bill, they authorize the completion of this massive disruption of today’s public and private health insurance arrangements within just two years." . . .

Bernie Sanders : Pros and Cons of Single-Payer Health Care (MEDICARE-For-ALL)
. . . "We will now take a look at the pros and cons of having this plan in place come next year (i.e. if Bernie Sanders win presidential race)" . . .

Canada’s Single Payer Healthcare: The Pros and Cons  . . . "Instead of multiple insurance agencies competing in a private marketplace, a single government agency or multi-government agency pays for the entire bill of health care for all of its residents.
"Every person has all the medical needs covered under one plan and includes all the services: Doctors, hospitals, long term care, prescription, drugs, dental and vision care.
"To top it off, everyone gets to decide where they want to receive their care.
"Sounds amazing, right? How soon can you move to Canada? And in many ways it is an incredible healthcare system. But like anything human made, there are pros and there are cons." . . .

Single Payer Health Care Pros and Cons

Under this, every day we will wake up to find some new government restriction placed on us. TD

Arrogant Obama suggests US couldn’t handle crisis without him in office

Media Equalizer

"Former President Barack Obama always has to make everything about himself. He also apparently has no faith in the United States anymore now that he’s not the commander-in-chief.
"While speaking in Canada on Monday night, the 44th president suggested that the United States couldn’t handle a crisis without him being back in office. 
“ 'If we had a crisis today, I’m concerned that we, at least in the United States, may not be in the habit of trying figure things out in a common sense, practical way,” Obama arrogantly said.
“ 'I think the danger that we have sometimes now in our politics in the United States, and what I’m seeing internationally, is us being driven by passions, and (we) are disconnected from facts, that in fact deliberately are shielded from facts and reason and logic,” he added.
"After taking a shot at President Donald Trump, the former president went on to argue that the world needs a million more versions of himself in order to have a bright future."     . . .

Review: The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

The safety culture burgeoning in US universities is a danger both for ‘coddled’ students and the future of society, warns Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson  "Trigger warnings. Safe spaces. Preferred pronouns. Checked privileges. If you work at an American university these days, you have to tread as if on eggshells, if not land mines. One ill-judged microaggression is all it takes to be accused of racism or sexism, transphobia or Islamophobia, harassment or full-blown rape. Often, such accusations lead to investigations that are the antithesis of due process, with the transgressor deemed guilty until proved innocent.

"I remember when it was not like this. Sixteen years ago, what lured me away from Oxford to New York University (NYU) and Harvard was the sense that the real intellectual action in my field (economic history) was on the western side of the Atlantic. The US economists, in particular, were impressively free in their speech. To present a paper at one of their seminars was to run a gauntlet of caustic criticism. “There are idiots,” Larry Summers famously began one of his papers. “Look around.” He was right. Unfortunately, idiotic ideas were in the process of taking over large swathes of academic life. 

"The speed with which campus life has changed for the worse is one of the most important points made by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt in this important if disturbing book. Lukianoff is a lawyer and head of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Fire), which works to protect academic freedom. Haidt is a professor of social psychology at NYU’s Stern School of Business and the founder of Heterodox Academy, which promotes intellectual diversity in academic life — the one type of diversity that universities appear not to care about." . . .

Gender Neutral Pronoun Insanity at the University of Oklahoma

Enter the Disrupter; Trump ran as an outcast. He promised to ‘drain,’ not to perpetuate, the swamp.

Victor Davis Hanson

"No one in Washington called Donald J. Trump a “god” (as journalist Evan Thomas in 2009 had suggested of Obama) when he arrived in January 2017. No one felt nerve impulses in his leg when Trump talked, as journalist Chris Matthews once remarked had happened to him after hearing an Obama speech. And no newsman or pundit cared how crisply creased were Trump’s pants, at least in the manner that New York Times columnist David Brooks had once praised Obama’s sartorial preciseness. Instead, Trump was greeted by the Washington media and intellectual establishment as if he were the first beast in the book of Revelation, who arose “out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.”

"Besides the Washington press and pundit corps, Donald Trump faced this third and more formidable opponent: the culture of permanent and senior employees of the federal and state governments, and the political appointees in Washington who revolve in and out from business, think tanks, lobbying firms, universities, and the media. Or as the legal scholar of the administrative state Philip Hamburger put it: “Although the United States remains a republic, administrative power creates within it a very different sort of government. The result is a state within the state — an administrative state within the Constitution’s United States.”  . . ."

What Has America Become?

   Gorena.org "Has America become the land of the special interest and home of the double standard?
     "Lets see: if we lie to the Congress, it’s a felony and if the Congress lies to us its just politics; if we dislike a black person, we’re racist and if a black dislikes whites, it’s their First Amendment right; the government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and they do almost nothing for the victims; in public schools you can teach that homosexuality is OK, but you better not use the word God in the process; you can kill an unborn child, but it is wrong to execute a mass murderer; we don’t burn books in America, we now rewrite them; we got rid of the communist and the Socialist threat by renaming them progressives; we are unable to close our border with Mexico but have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea; if you protest against President Obama’s policies you’re a terrorist but if you burned an American flag or George Bush in effigy it was your First Amendment right.
     "You can have pornography on TV or the Internet, but you better not put a nativity scene in a public park during Christmas; we have eliminated all criminals in America, they are now called sick people; we can use a human fetus for medical research but it’s wrong to use an animal.
     "We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don’t want to work; we all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology; we still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct; parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games; the land of opportunity is now the land of handouts; the similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.
     "And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who’s at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises our taxes; tells us the problem is solved so they can get back to their re-election campaign.
"What has happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave?"

DNC Blacklisting Of Fox News Proves GOP Needs To Fight Media

"When are Republicans going to stop playing by two sets of rules?"

Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist  . . . "DNC Chair Tom Perez cited an article written by liberal journalist Jane Mayer of The New Yorker for his decision. Her article alleged that Fox News Channel, which has been less hostile and hysterical about the man elected president by the United States electorate than its counterparts at every other television outlet, was too close to the Donald Trump White House.

"Fox News’ opinion hosts include Trump-loving Sean Hannity. Its news hosts, including Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Shannon Bream, and Chris Wallace, are far more objective than those at other broadcast media outlets. Liberal Trump critic Shep Smith is also billed as a news host. Other media outlets frequently blur the line between news and opinion, with CNN hosts Jake Tapper, Brian Stelter, Chris Cuomo, and Don Lemon mixing their liberal opinions with occasional bouts of news.

"In recent years:

• NBC sat on evidence exonerating Justice Brett Kavanaugh, discrediting Michael Avenatti and his clients’ accusations.

• CBS published false documents to smear President George W. Bush.
• CNN fed debate questions to Hillary Clinton before a primary debate.
• ABC helped Democrats launch their “war on women” campaign strategy in 2012.
• And CNN attacked Mitt Romney during a debate when he said true things about the Benghazi terror attack.
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• "That’s just a few off-the-top-of-the-head examples of media and Democratic Party collusion regarding election year issues and debates. But it’s a problem that exists so constantly as to be a crisis."

Ann Coulter: ‘Idiot Republicans’ Surrender When Democrats ‘Mouth the Word Racism’

Breitbart  "Ann Coulter lamented Republican weakness in the face of accusations of “racism” from Democrats and the broader left in a Wednesday-aired interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

"The status quo of demographic change is an existential threat to American cultural continuity, warned Coulter.

“ 'I judge all politicians on their stand on the most important issue of our era [and] generation, and it decides whether America lives or dies,” said Coulter. “That is immigration.”

"Coulter continued, “So I’ve been, for a long time, pretty tough on Rand Paul, because he was terrible on immigration. “He was Mr. Amnesty, remember? He was taking Rupert Murdoch to the Kentucky Derby, and Rupert Murdoch is famously open borders.”

"Coulter went on, “So I’m not wild about Rand Paul’s instincts on these things, but he actually has been great on a lot of other issues. He’s very good on the don’t-start-wars-around-the-globe issue for no purpose, killing off our best Americans. He’s been fantastic on that.”

Coulter added, “I’m hesitant to be too critical, but I think [Rand Paul] is going back to being, ‘I’m going to be Mr. Principled Libertarian and please admire me for my principles,’ which is good, you can all slap one another on the back when we’re in the gulags together because you’re about to wreck our country.”

"Illegal immigration and the southern border’s porousness dually constitute a national emergency, assessed Coulter:

"On its face, I think it’s a nonsense position to say this isn’t a national emergency. Look at the other national emergencies Rand Paul has signed off on. I tweeted a few of them last night. We still have like 28 active national emergencies, things like transferring property to anyone who would upset the Middle East peace process or who would upset peace in the Balkans, who would upset the ongoing negotiations in Zimbabwe. How many Americans are going to die if we don’t call any of those national emergencies? Any? Would one American so much as be inconvenienced by anything that happens in the Congo or Zimbabwe? Those are national emergencies. Rand Paul’s happy to sign on to those. But here we have a literal national emergency that president after president, Congress after Congress, has refused to deal with. That’s why Donald Trump was elected." . . .

Hillary!

Expiration Candidates

. . . "Mind you, we do believe that Hillary has no intention of "running." This is, after all, a woman who has to pay heavily-muscled men to carry her up and down stairs when not dragging her limp body into a waiting getaway van after a public appearance.

"But not for a second do we believe she's given up her all-encompassing obsession with becoming President. Rather, we expect her to maintain an active public profile while all the other Dems batter each other on the stump, after which she'll step out on the blood-soaked battlefield and graciously accept the "draft Hillary" movement which someone with no traceable connection to the Clinton Foundation has thoughtfully and generously funded."

WaPo Fact Checker Finds Hillary Clinton Got A Lot Wrong In Claims Of Voter Suppression     . . . "After Hillary Clinton claimed somewhere between 40,000 and 80,000 people were turned away from the polls because of their skin in Wisconsin during the 2016 presidential election, The Washington Post fact checker had to give her “four Pinocchios” for being “wrong on multiple levels' .” . . .

"I spoke to the creators of Belgium’s anti-Semitic carnival float. They’re not sorry."

The Belgians fought the Nazis valiantly during the WW2 occupation by Hitler. But one needs to be aware that many of them joined the Nazi SS to fight alongside Himmler, Hitler, and Goering. TD

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

"I initially had some sympathy for the creators of an anti-Semitic carnival float in Belgium.

"Studying their CVs and past creations for the annual carnival of Aalst, I saw that they were a group of some 20 upstanding citizens — a fireman, a technician, an Education Ministry official and a police department employee, to name a few. They had invested countless unpaid hours to produce something they thought was beautiful but ended up horrifying viewers all over the world.

"Their creation, which they unveiled Sunday at Belgium’s most celebrated carnival, featured two huge puppets depicting pink-clad haredi Orthodox Jews. One of them leers while smoking a cigar, a rat perched on his shoulder. Against a synagogue facade, the puppets have money bags at their feet. A platform following the float carried revelers dressed like the puppets who danced to a song about “bulging coffers” and “Jews getting extra fat.' ” . . .

Bernie Sanders Slams Effort to Condemn Ilhan Omar

"The Washington Free Beacon reported on Wednesday that Sanders has added staffers with ties to the anti-Israel community."

Free Beacon  "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) came out against the now-stalled push by Democratic leadership in the House to condemn anti-Semitism as a response to comments from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.).

"In a Wednesday afternoon statement, Sanders said he viewed the effort to condemn anti-Semitism in the House as a way to stifle debate on Israel.

"Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world," Sanders said. "We must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel."

"What I fear is going on in the House now is an effort to target Congresswoman Omar as a way of stifling that debate," he said. "That's wrong".  

"Sanders further called for "an even-handed Middle East policy which brings Israelis and Palestinians together for a lasting peace."  

"The statement from Sanders comes as debate rages within the Democratic caucus in the House on how to respond to the latest anti-Semitic comments from Omar, who last week suggested during a far-left townhall meeting that supporters of Israel have "allegiance to a foreign country."

"Omar, like Sanders is now suggesting, said during the event that efforts to label her were an effort to stifle debate." . . .

Tony Branco

Kamala Harris Defends Omar After Latest Anti-Semitic Outburst, Says She’s The Real Victim…  . . . “ 'We all have a responsibility to speak out against anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, racism, and all forms of hatred and bigotry,” Harris said.

“ 'But like some of my colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus, I am concerned that the spotlight being put on Congresswoman Omar may put her at risk,” she added." . . .

Rick Moran: Democrats can't decide whether to come out of the closet as anti-Semites or not  "The Democrats find themselves in a bind over whether or not they should acknowledge that a sizable segment of their party are antisemites. They had a chance yesterday to go on record with a strong statement condemning antisemitism and ended up panicking when the party's radical left wing pushed back." . . .

"There's really no excuse for this. These and other more "mainstream" Democrats are pretending that the antisemitic comments by Omar aren't the issue; the issue is hate directed against Omar that "may put her at risk." It's certain to make the radical antisemites in the party feel better about themselves because they want US policy to be more "even handed" - accept the murderous Palestinians as legitimate "partners" and push Israel to commit suicide."  Emphasis added by TD

Democrat James Clyburn Utters Most INSANE Defense Yet Of Ilhan Omar

No matter if you like President Trump or now, he stands between us and these terrifying leftists

One can only hope.

Get Trump's Kids? The smarter Democrats are steering clear. The dumber ones? Not so much...   . . . "Because the fact of the matter is, when you're obviously going after someone's kids in a desperate bid to take down the old man, because you can't get the old man, the voters are going to see what's happening and get pretty disgusted.  It's an appalling state of affairs to see the prosecutorial dragnet target the kids and their spouses, who after all had little to say about who their father is. Ivanka, Jared Kushner, Don Jr. and Eric Trump are all potentially in the crossfire now. Internal polls and general voter behavior suggest that voters find this bad stuff and that does get some of these Democrats' attention. No wonder they have the willies.

"But in the Politico report, these three were the only cited examples. There's also an abundant supply of the other kind of Democrats, the kind who can't stop themselves and want to see an attack on all fronts to take down the kids, too. Do they outnumber the smarter Democrats?" . . .

. . . Should the kids of Joe Biden and John Kerry, both of whom have gotten immensely rich in matters linked to their father's position in public office, suddenly be targets of find-something, find-anything probes? How about the kids of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? And then there are the Kenndy kids - a look there can find all kinds of stuff. Shall the 'can indict a ham sandwich' style of prosecution be leveled at those kids, too? Anything that can be done on one side can be done on the other. Democrats, who changed House and Senate rules in the belief that theirs was permanent political power, looked on in dismay as Republicans took power and captured their weapons.  . . .

Emphasis mine, TD