A party out of power, the dems luck runs out

[hwytohell]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/democrats-republicans-childrens-health-care/542817/  

[Carlos Danger]

At issue is the GOP’s demand that funding for CHIP be offset by cuts to Medicare and the Affordable Care Act. The House proposal would force

From the article. controlling how much in total is spent on the population on healthcare is one way of lowering costs no? Is that not the basis of the single payer system? As opposed to the Democrat version represented by Joseph Kennedy III which basically looks at the Federal Government as a endless blank check.

 

wealthier Americans to pay a larger share of their Medicare premiums, an idea once championed by Obama but only as part of a much broader deficit-reduction agreement. Democrats have rejected that, arguing that the U.S. can afford to provide health coverage for low-income families without stripping it for others.

“It is reflective of a continued vision for Republican leadership here, and under President Trump, that health care in this country for some reason is a zero-sum game, that you can only extend coverage and care for kids, for community health centers, at the expense of something else,” Representative Joseph Kennedy III, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in an interview. “In order to cover somebody, you have to take it away or degrade the quality of care for somebody else.”

“We don’t have to do that,” Kennedy said.

[XC.Morrison]

9 hours ago, hwytohell said:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/democrats-republicans-childrens-health-care/542817/  

 

[Zambroski]

15 minutes ago, XC.Morrison said:

 

Yep.  It goes both ways.  I am not a fan of it.  I don't care what side the OP is cheering for....and mostly, rarely bother with it.