Another side of Nancy Pelosi

to Nancy Pelosi's dedication to helping People with Aids.

Thanks for posting this, NBachers. What a nice thing to learn!

Nancy is a hero.

It’s a righteous big stick she carries.

This makes her presentation that she did for Blue Cross Blue Shield all the more curious. It was reported that she told the group that single payer health care is not on the table. Especially in light of helping people with AIDS, private health insurance companies have failed our country. The current health care paradigm is something that has entrenched during her time in politics. It’s a good reminder that all of us need to keep pushing even our finest leaders to do what’s right.

The ACA can make ‘Medicare for All’ available to all as a buy in at the exchanges - a public option. If Medicare gets the right to bargain with healthcare providers and drug companies, it will wipe basic or ‘Bronze’ private insurance off the map. Over time Medicare coverage would be extended.

A Medicare buy-in would cost the federal budget nothing - It would be priced priced to fully recover costs and subsidies,

Keeping ‘Medicare for All’ off the the books frees congress to apply new tax revenue to the task of rebuilding and transforming infrastructure, education, research, and energy.

Putting a compelling public option into the ACA would be straightforward. It was there in the early drafts. I suspect that this is route favored by Speaker Pelosi.

Here’s what Bernie had to say about Taxpayer Funded Single Payer in 2010

Sanders: Single Payer Never Had A Chance. “It would have had 8 or 10 votes and that’s it” There were about 50 votes “to include a public option”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sanders-single-payer-never-had-a-chance

Most of the rest of the world gets to UHC via a hybrid of public/private mechanisms.

She is supporting UHC, as per the Democratic party, which doing what is right. To say that she is not isn't really fair, or correct.

Also:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/voters-who-like-medicare-for-all-may-not-like-single-payer.html

for truth