What if the Government told you that for safety's sake, you must purchase a gun?

[nadinbrzezinski]

267. And social security started with the Grangers

In the 1890s...your point?

American politics is like that.

In the current political reality you could not pass Medicare for all. So are you going to tell people with Pre existing conditions, who are otherwise uninsurable, to go ahead and die in the name of political purity?

Go suck an egg and die, that's what you're telling them. How about the millions that will not lose it in the middle of treatment? Go suck an egg and die, in the name of purity.

Oh what about the thousands daily who refuse an ambulance because they have no insurance? Go suck an egg and die in the name of purity.

Those of us who understand the arc of history get it...this is a first step. A first step that was first attempted by TR in 1912. Chew on that, I am not willing to suck an egg and die to please this political orthodoxy.