Degrees Of Progressive

[guillaumeb]

17. Interesting approach, but........

Looking at health care, the Democratic approach, exemplified by the ACA, or Obamacare, has been an incremental approach that some day might cover everyone. Note the qualifier might.

But the thing to note is that this approach guarantees massive profits as well as massive government subsidies for the healthcare industry and its 1% owners.

A far better approach, truly progressive approach, would be the single payer approach that has been proven to work better than the US market oriented approach. Clinton's incrementalist approach is no better than Obama's incrementalist approach. Call it political realism, or the way we do things in the US, but it is not progressive.

As to the minimum wage, a true progressive approach would be to call for a living wage, not a $12 wage that is nowhere near a living wage.