Washington Post calls Bernie's health care plan "half-baked"

[hill2016]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-sanderss-ideas-are-not-too-bold-they-are-too-facile/2016/01/28/e7125bca-c60a-11e5-9693-933a4d31bcc8_story.html

Personally I think that's being generous but whatever...

“Their savings numbers are — well, politely said — simply wrong,” Emory University health-care expert Kenneth E. Thorpe told Vox. Mr. Thorpe, who is not hostile to single-payer systems of the type Mr. Sanders favors and has even advanced single-payer plans of his own, released an analysis Wednesday finding that Mr. Sanders’s proposal would cost $1 trillion more than the candidate estimated. That is not over a 10-year budget window. That is every year.

[gyroscope]

1. The ACA is half-baked

and despite the name isn't affordable

[bvf]

2. Hmm.

Thorpe was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy during the Clinton administration.

No mention of this in the article. Wonder why?

[Todays_Illusion]

3. Mr. Torpe was also a member of Bill Clinton's Administration

Dr. Thorpe was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1993 to 1995. In this capacity, he coordinated all financial estimates and program impacts of President Clinton’s health care reform proposals for the White House.


That doesn't mean he is wrong, but it is necessary information.

[NurseJackie]

4. Someone at the WP is paying attention.

[Fumesucker]

6. Too bad they weren't paying attention in 2002-2003

http://www.thenation.com/article/eleven-years-how-washington-post-helped-give-us-iraq-war/

In the months before the war, The Washington Post ran more than 140 stories on its front page promoting the war.

[ypsfonos]

7. to who pays their salaries!

[hill2016]

8. to maths

actually

[Fumesucker]

5. Eleven Years On: How ‘The Washington Post’ Helped Give Us the Iraq War

http://www.thenation.com/article/eleven-years-how-washington-post-helped-give-us-iraq-war/

In the months before the war, The Washington Post ran more than 140 stories on its front page promoting the war.

[NCTraveler]

9. The half that isn't "cooked up" is really good.

Not that it's his plan to start, but still something excellent to promote. One would have thought he would have had his ducks in a row on this one considering how long I'm told he has been fighting for it. Ends up, with poor thought in what he released, he gave them ammunition. Really should have been more thorough and thoughtful with his plan. We need to move in that direction and we need people promoting it with deep thought.

[NurseJackie]

11. I prefer Hillary's practical and rational approach to such things.

The pie in the sky looks pretty and tasty, but when gravity finally brings it back down to earth, it makes a big ol' mess.

[NCTraveler]

12. I do as well.

At the same time, when people with depth discuss healthcare as a right, it makes society more comfortable with the thought. It's how grassroots movements work. I believe a Sanders is setting that effort back.

[pinebox]

10. The Washington Post is a rag after their latest stunt

and this explains that http://www.alternet.org/media/washington-post-just-published-probably-most-inaccurate-editorial-bernies-campaign-so-far

[JTFrog]

13. Aren't you the guy that flooded DU with right wing links and said the source didn't matter?

I had a feeling you wouldn't feel the same if it you didn't like a source used against your candidate. Thanks for proving it.

[Bernin4U]

14. ZOMG! The glass is half empty!

No matter that Bernie put 10 more glasses on the table.

[amborin]

15. WaPo represents scared billionaire interests, Big Pharma, Huge Health Industry Insurers; nt