Sanders triumphs over Trump in healthcare's battle of ideas

[DonViejo]

BY BRENT BUDOWSKY, COLUMNIST, THE HILL - 07/14/17 09:40 AM EDT

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has defeated President Trump and his allies in Congress by a landslide in the battle of ideas over healthcare in America. The various GOP healthcare proposals offered by Republicans in 2017 are all destined to suffer an ignominious defeat.

They are so horrendous, so destructive to the interests of so many Americans, so strongly opposed by so many groups representing major players in the healthcare system and so widely and intensely disliked by so many voters, that they will not become law in any form close to what is currently on the table in Congress.

The Sanders vision of healthcare, which is to enact a Medicare for all system, is far more popular with voters than TrumpCare, RyanCare and the latest version of the ill-fated McConnell plan.

Similarly, it should be noted that having been the only major candidate in either party to champion single-payer healthcare throughout the 2016 primaries, Sanders succeeded at the Democratic National Convention in winning Hillary Clinton's support for a platform that stated that healthcare is a right for all Americans and a public option should be enacted to make that right the law of the land.

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[David__77]

1. I hope Democrats keep saying "health care is a right."

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[Blue_Tires]

2. Why is Sanders getting all the damn credit?

It was a Clinton plan dating back to 1998...

[murielm99]

3. +1000000

Men often steal women's ideas and take credit for them.

[WIProgressive88]

5. Oh for the love of god.

The idea of single payer healthcare has been around long before either Hillary or Bernie were pushing it, so no one is "stealing" anyone's idea here. Bernie is being associated with this idea more so than Hillary now because he is one of its biggest proponents, whereas Hillary actively opposed single payer during the 2016 primary.

[WIProgressive88]

4. I know I'm really going out on a limb here, but I am going to guess that this is because Sanders is

currently this plan's most vocal proponent. Just a guess.

[KPN]

6. Medicare for all? Do you have a source?

[Blue_Tires]

7. here:

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/07/us/clinton-proposes-opening-medicare-to-those-55-to-65.html

[KPN]

8. That's not medicare for all.

It's medicare for some more. Not all.

[KPN]

9. Oh, and by the way, since you think

HC came up with the "idea" way back and deserves credit, lets go back in time a bit, shall we?

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