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37 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

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Boom. The cross. Her momentum's going to be hard to stop.

 

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If Warren wins... who’s the running mate?

Booker?

It’s got to be a person of color... and most likely a man right?

1 minute ago, Dnaguy said:

If Warren wins... who’s the running mate?

Booker?

It’s got to be a person of color... and most likely a man right?

I hate this debate but the betting markets are saying (regardless of nominee):

Stacey Abrams, Buttigieg, Booker, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris

1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

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You both love and hate to see it.

1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

I hate this debate but the betting markets are saying (regardless of nominee):

Stacey Abrams, Buttigieg, Booker, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris

Maybe I’m showing my ignorance here, but what exactly has Abrams done other than get beat in Georgia. She’s like bizarro Beto.

Is she really all that inspiring of a candidate?

Just now, Dnaguy said:

Maybe I’m showing my ignorance here, but what exactly has Abrams done other than get beat in Georgia. She’s like bizarro Beto.

Is she really all that inspiring of a candidate?

Nothing.

She said she's open to it.  But I think she's going to run again for governor in 2022.  She's still pissed she lost. 

At this point in time in 2015, Hillary was holding down a consistent 20 to 30 point lead over Sanders.  It wasn’t until Jan/February 2016 that Hillary’s lead over Bernie collapsed in the polls.

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22 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

At this point in time in 2015, Hillary was holding down a consistent 20 to 30 point lead over Sanders.  It wasn’t until Jan/February 2016 that Hillary’s lead over Bernie collapsed in the polls.

sounds like biden's lead over warren, just backtrack the timeline a little.

i wonder how long trump will be running attack ads on biden.  he was already in "operation get hillary's disapproval into the mid 50's" mode by now.

 

Still waiting on Beto and Castro (I think).

Beto said he raised more than in Q2 ($3.6 million) but no specifics yet. 

 

Sure Jan. We may hate Fox News but their polling outfit is top notch. Yesterday’s result is much more believable than Change Research. 

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5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Sure Jan. We may hate Fox News but their polling outfit is top notch. Yesterday’s result is much more believable than Change Research. 

I agree.  It’s not a great poll.  Junk food poll in fact. 

A lesson to the centrist/fear-based Dems... the people will follow if we boldly lead.

 

Just now, bad_teammate said:

A lesson to the centrist/fear-based Dems... the people will follow if we boldly lead.

As a centrist, fear based Dem I have favored impeachment all along.  Certainly within a nano-second after reading the Mueller report.

My fear is simply that there is a bit of over-promising of big spending going on.  I'd rather the Dem focus on health care, gun licensing and treason rather than college debt forgiveness and reparations.

Being pro-impeachment hasn't taken any balls at all.  Just the simple idea that we have three branches and they need to be a check on each other. 

And only one half of one of those can be counted on.

 

28 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

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Is Bernie's recent drop the result of the heart attack news? 

1 minute ago, Mojo Hand said:

Is Bernie's recent drop the result of the heart attack news? 

No

 

A lesson to the centrist/fear-based Dems... the people will follow if we boldly lead.
 


Pursuing impeachment has nothing to do whatsoever with being centrist or not.
26 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Pursuing impeachment has nothing to do whatsoever with being centrist or not.

 

I'm talking about the "oh universal healthcare would be good but we have to pre-pre-compromise" attitude of basically every single presidential candidate except 2.

I'm talking about the "oh universal healthcare would be good but we have to pre-pre-compromise" attitude of basically every single presidential candidate except 2.

Wanting the best version of universal healthcare instead of something every country western world has moved on from is the opposite of compromise.

A lot of us, myself included, oppose Bernie’s plan because it’s not as good at delivering the best care to the most people as several others. Better than what we have now, obviously, but from where I sit y’all look like the ones settling, due to a failure of imagination and ideological blindness.
12 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:


Wanting the best version of universal healthcare instead of something every country western world has moved on from is the opposite of compromise.

A lot of us, myself included, oppose Bernie’s plan because it’s not as good at delivering the best care to the most people as several others. Better than what we have now, obviously, but from where I sit y’all look like the ones settling, due to a failure of imagination and ideological blindness.

Do you seriously think if we aren't aggressive as possible about ridding ourselves of the stranglehold of health insurance companies on access to healthcare that they won't beat back some piecemeal alternative that takes a decade to roll out? That is by far my biggest concern, the insurance execs will spend as much as it takes to influence opinion and politicians that give little more than winning a re-election (or appearing "centrist" for these never-trumper suburbanites).

You keep talking about this, afaik Bernie is simply proposing the kind of healthcare that Canada and most of Europe uses. Private health insurance is still available but must be paid extra for.

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10 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

A lot of us, myself included, oppose Bernie’s plan because it’s not as good at delivering the best care to the most people as several others. Better than what we have now, obviously, but from where I sit y’all look like the ones settling, due to a failure of imagination and ideological blindness.

No candidate has a more cost-effective plan to cover 100% of all Americans medical needs than Bernie's M4A. Name it. You can't. Either they maintain the expensive and wasteful profit centers of health insurance or they do not cover everything a human needs to live, which includes their teeth, eyes, and brain.

Name it.

Yawn. “No candidate”. You’re talking about politics and who wins (which is what this thread is about, so good for you). I’m talking about healthcare and payment systems and how to cover everyone and get the best outcomes in the most cost effective ways, which is the goal of winning elections. That’s fine, but Bernie’s plan is the most “compromised”, except his is with magical thinking.

Do you seriously think if we aren't aggressive as possible about ridding ourselves of the stranglehold of health insurance companies on access to healthcare that they won't beat back some piecemeal alternative that takes a decade to roll out? That is by far my biggest concern, the insurance execs will spend as much as it takes to influence opinion and politicians that give little more than winning a re-election (or appearing "centrist" for these never-trumper suburbanites).
You keep talking about this, afaik Bernie is simply proposing the kind of healthcare that Canada and most of Europe uses. Private health insurance is still available but must be paid extra for.

No, what Bernie proposes is what most of Europe and Canada have drifted away from and far more centralized than what is typically done today.

It's like a shitlib bingo card. Healthcare payment systems. Best outcomes. Cost effective. Crazy Bernie. 

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Anyway/ this thread isn’t about serious policy discussion. Back to horse race.

4 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Yawn. “No candidate”.

Yeah it's fucked up I'd specify "candidate" in the Democratic Nominee thread. What an asshole I am!

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I’m talking about healthcare and payment systems and how to cover everyone and get the best outcomes in the most cost effective ways, which is the goal of winning elections. 

Name the more cost-effective system that covers 100% of Americans. I am very eager to hear it.

3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:


No, what Bernie proposes is what most of Europe and Canada have drifted away from and far more centralized than what is typically done today.

Again I ask you more specifically, if we propose some sort of hybrid/centralized system where health insurance still plays a role, you don't think they won't successfully water it down by fighting against it? These companies aren't giving up their power willingly and I seriously think they'll be much more successful in retaining it if the most popular plan put forth lets includes them in a major way (i.e. they can successfully influence it).

Bozo knows they will, and he's fine with it because he knows he will be OK.

1 minute ago, GSU&UT said:

Again I ask you more specifically, if we propose some sort of hybrid/centralized system where health insurance still plays a role, you don't think they won't successfully water it down by fighting against it? These companies aren't giving up their power willingly and I seriously think they'll be much more successful in retaining it if the most popular plan put forth lets includes them in a major way (i.e. they can successfully influence it).

Knowing that we won't get everything we want, we have to start in the middle. That way after compromising we end up somewhere on the right. It's the shitlib Dem playbook. But you probably don't understand that as you don't possess sufficient expertise in this extremely complicated issue like my shitlib friends and I do. 

7 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Knowing that we won't get everything we want, we have to start in the middle. That way after compromising we end up somewhere on the right. It's the shitlib Dem playbook. But you probably don't understand that as you don't possess sufficient expertise in this extremely complicated issue like my shitlib friends and I do. 

It's this too. I'm not under the impression that Bernie's M4A comes close to passing in the Senate (especially if he's only for filibuster reform and not abolishment), but I want his old crotchey ass up there really speaking to the American people that if they elected him that they need to push their representatives to not piss their pants and get on board.

Again I ask you more specifically, if we propose some sort of hybrid/centralized system where health insurance still plays a role, you don't think they won't successfully water it down by fighting against it? These companies aren't giving up their power willingly and I seriously think they'll be much more successful in retaining it if the most popular plan put forth lets includes them in a major way (i.e. they can successfully influence it).

But they wouldn’t be able to “water down” a plan with a 10 year ramp up? Okay.

Bozo what's the more cost-effective plan that covers 100% of Americans?

Knowing that we won't get everything we want, we have to start in the middle. That way after compromising we end up somewhere on the right. It's the shitlib Dem playbook. But you probably don't understand that as you don't possess sufficient expertise in this extremely complicated issue like my shitlib friends and I do. 

Wanting the best policy outcome isn’t the middle.
Bozo what's the more cost-effective plan that covers 100% of Americans?

The best system in current operation in the world that would fit here or the best one proposed in this country so far?
Bozo what's the more cost-effective plan that covers 100% of Americans?

The best system in current operation in the world that would fit here or the best one proposed in this country so far?
8 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:


The best system in current operation in the world that would fit here or the best one proposed in this country so far?

The best plan proposed would be the thing that makes sense because you want the best policy outcome, right?

It's hilarious that you dismiss Bernie for magical thinking but you're perpetually offended that anyone would ask you to name even a proposal, much less a candidate who is pushing it.

Immensely popular candidate + massive movement of people who support the proposal = magical thinking for stupid idiots

No candidate + unnamed policy = smart stuff for brain geniuses

11 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:


But they wouldn’t be able to “water down” a plan with a 10 year ramp up? Okay.

They're just going to willingly take less profits because it takes longer to implement? My point is I don't want them being able to have a say in any of this, I more or less want them to be abolished unless you pay into a single-payer system and then pay for private insurance after that.

The 10-year ramp is Kamala's dumb bullshit.

Bernie's is 4 years and its biggest jump is in Year 1.

37 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

Bozo knows they will, and he's fine with it because he knows he will be OK.

Half the country feels this way. 

The best plan proposed would be the thing that makes sense because you want the best policy outcome, right?
It's hilarious that you dismiss Bernie for magical thinking but you're perpetually offended that anyone would ask you to name even a proposal, much less a candidate who is pushing it.
Immensely popular candidate + massive movement of people who support the proposal = magical thinking for stupid idiots
No candidate + unnamed policy = smart stuff for brain geniuses

No, I’m asking you to clarify your question. Are you asking for the best model in the world for UHC that would fit here or the best model that has actually been proposed?

If it’s the former, probably the German Universal Multi-payer model. If it’s the latter, it would have been the final version of Wyden-Bennet, which would have been revenue neutral and achieved universal coverage in combination with a small vestigial form of Medicaid within a two year window.
Bozo knows they will, and he's fine with it because he knows he will be OK.

One of the best examples of how progressive maximalists are exactly like Trumpian Republicans is how they characterize simple disagreement or non-ideological policy directions as evidence of ulterior motives. It’s a tool for enforcing tribal boundaries and cleansing.

Do you recommend expulsion or do I get a chance to take the loyalty oath?

Wyden-Bennett funding is pretty much exactly the same as what is proposed to cover M4A. Eliminate premiums and raise taxes.

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More specifically, under [the] proposal, most health insurance premiums that are now paid privately would flow through the Federal budget. As a result, total Federal outlays for health insurance premiums in 2014 would be on the order of $1.3 trillion to $1.4 trillion. Those costs would be approximately offset by revenues and savings from several sources: premium payments collected from individuals through their tax returns; revenue raised by replacing the current tax exclusion for health insurance with an income tax deduction; new tax payments by employers to the Federal government
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Also, Wyden-Bennett is not universal.

99% of people covered, $1.5T in savings over a decade

That's good.

Better?

100% of people covered, $2T in savings over a decade

Meanwhile, that second one actually has two major presidential candidates supporting it.

As opposed to Wyden/Bennett, which has zero.

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An obviously better plan with real support and movement? Fuck that tribal zealotry! The REAL shit is dead bills no one supports and no one is even talking about. That's practical, results-based thinking!!

52 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Half the country feels this way. 

Well we only need 51% so that sounds good to me.

19 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

Well we only need 51% so that sounds good to me.

This is more important to you than me, good luck in your quest for M4A. 

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