No Mondale moment: Elizabeth Warren releases her plan to finance 'Medicare for All'

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39. It's a paradox to me

The healthcare system in the US is broken. Everyone should be covered and we need to drastically cut costs.

The further reaching a plan is the more it may reduce costs in the future. Only if it is enacted and implemented. That means winning multiple elections.

I don’t give credit to Americans for having a lot of sense. Bush and trump both won elections in the last 20 years. Yeah they lost the popular vote and tampering at least with voter rolls but it shouldn’t have been close.

We all know what the attacks in the general election. I don’t agree with them but our answers have to be convincing to most people or we may lose. Losing what ACA did would be devastating.

This update improves our answer from “yes you lose your work insurance and taxes go up but trust us you’ll come out ahead” to “yes you lose your work insurance and taxes go up on some, but trust us not for you. You’ll come out ahead.”

I don’t think that’s an easy answer to sell. I worry it will make us lose. I wish Warren left room to maneuver but l think she’s stuck now.

I’ll also point out that changing how the healthcare system works for over 100 million people and taking a trillion dollars a year of costs out seems like an enormous endeavor. The engineer in me would rather do that in more than one step so we don’t screw up. I like knowing what l ultimately want and then being able to do it in multiple steps.