Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill 'Medicare for All' [View all]

[Lazy Daisy]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by DonViejo (a host of the Democratic Primaries forum).

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/politics/medicare-for-all-lobbyists.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes&fbclid=IwAR02y5cJvT0f6xdVPAIrkE_bUzq5u7bS3mQbpDnmyZGPVMqK6JRs3PNElfI

WASHINGTON — Even before Democrats finish drafting bills to create a single-payer health care system, the health care and insurance industries have assembled a small army of lobbyists to kill “Medicare for all,” an idea that is mocked publicly but is being greeted privately with increasing seriousness.

Doctors, hospitals, drug companies and insurers are intent on strangling Medicare for all before it advances from an aspirational slogan to a legislative agenda item. They have hired a top lieutenant in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign to spearhead the effort. And their tactics will show Democrats what they are up against as the party drifts to the left on health care.



I posted this in primaries because it's part of the discussion here. Most people seem to think all our candidates support single payer, they don't. I apologize if this is the wrong place and will move it to GD if that is the proper place for it.