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Bye-bye, Elizabeth
“I have a plan!,” says Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Yes, she does. Universal health care (“Medicare for All”); free college-level education; revamping the military, our foreign policy, immigration; charging a wealth tax; massive changes in our policies to fight the global climate emergency; agricultural program reforms; anti-poverty programs; and many more plans can be found on her web site, https://elizabethwarren.com/plans.
Although these proposals have attracted a lot of support among Millennials and others who deem themselves to be progressives and liberals, there are two programs, in particular, which will doom the Warren Presidential candidacy. These programs are interrelated, and they will not work.
Medicare for All
Medicare for All, legislation originated and authored by Sen. Bernie Sanders, reflects the belief that a fundamental human right is to have health care, universally available to all of us. Medical costs in America are outrageous. Big Pharma, the explosion in personal injury lawsuits, and the large number of doctors who are charging more than ever before to cover their rising insurance premiums, have made accessing medical care an extraordinarily-costly and complex process, daunting to many people.
The amount of paperwork, the duplication or more of procedures deemed necessary to…
