Opinion | Kamala Harris Has a Good Health-Care Idea

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From WSJopinion: Replacing ObamaCare exchanges with something similar to Medicare Advantage is a better idea than anything Kamala Harris’s Democratic rivals have proposed, writes DrJohnCGoodman

During the CNN Democratic debate on July 31, 2019, former Vice-President Joe Biden ripped into the health-care plan put forth by Senator Kamala Harris due to its excessive cost and the restrictions it places on private insurance. Image: ReutersAs Democratic presidential candidates veer left to satisfy the party’s radical base, it’s easy to dismiss their ideas as “a fantasy world,” to quote Joe Biden. Even so, they occasionally have an idea worth considering.

Consider Sen. Kamala Harris’s health-care plan. She starts where Bernie Sanders does, with the goal of ending both employer-based insurance and private coverage in the ObamaCare exchanges. And she corrals everyone into Medicare. So far, so radical. But unlike Mr. Sanders, she retains the Medicare Advantage...

 

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opinion DrJohnCGoodman Listen JeffBezos - eventually you are just going to have to pay some taxes my man.

opinion DrJohnCGoodman Still a bad idea

opinion DrJohnCGoodman No, no she doesn’t. Get govt out of healthcare.

opinion DrJohnCGoodman If it is good for wsj it is good for America. Believe this and get your reward in heaven.

opinion DrJohnCGoodman If she does its lost in her Open Borders INSANITY!

opinion DrJohnCGoodman She's a female version of Trump -- a complete opportunist. Few are biting that bait, these days!

opinion DrJohnCGoodman Let's eliminate all those private health insurance ArtificialLines.

opinion DrJohnCGoodman Anything other than OneNationalHealthRiskPool is cherrypicking.

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opinion DrJohnCGoodman PreTaxDollar health insurance undermines Social Security and Medicare tax collections and worker lifetime retirement and disability benefits by losing the matching contributions from employer and employee. Box 1 should be $63,000

opinion DrJohnCGoodman Los Angeles Times just published recent column which disagrees with WSJ support for private health insurance.

opinion DrJohnCGoodman MedicareAdvantage is just like CocaColaAdvantage -- NOT the real thing.

opinion DrJohnCGoodman Total BS here. MedicareAdvantage & EmployerSponsored & Obamacare ACA plans are all the EXACT SAME PRODUCT -- tens of thousands of non standardized, limited local network health plans marketed to small, cherrypicked health risk pools. A wrong plan for everyone.

opinion DrJohnCGoodman Coming from the Murdoch mouthpiece, that makes me immediately suspicious

opinion DrJohnCGoodman Universal condom coverage is a short sighted plan.

opinion DrJohnCGoodman 😂🤣 Yeah...sounds great until it breaks the bank. 🙄🙄🙄

opinion DrJohnCGoodman Capitalism would be served better by eliminating the middle man, healthcare insurers. Hospitals and clinics would grow and flourish if everybody were getting annual medical checkups and dental cleaning. We have highways all over the the USA because we don't have middle men.

opinion DrJohnCGoodman These fake news outlets...not the WSJ...are starting to speak the truth because they don't want their address information published. Tell it baby! Tell it!

opinion DrJohnCGoodman Medicare Advantage must die. It is simply more insurance that is hurting seniors financially. Americans need Medicare-for-All which will include dental and vision. Currently, Americans can't afford dental care.

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opinion DrJohnCGoodman Hello, doc, guess what? If there is single-payer, the government will almost definitely bring down your reimbursement rates. Do you still support it knowing that you may have to purchase a few less cars and yachts?

opinion DrJohnCGoodman Raise taxes,

opinion DrJohnCGoodman Baloney. Whatever she proposes is pure socialism. Don't extol her, or she'll start shaking her body again as though she's President already

opinion DrJohnCGoodman John, I think you have a conflict of interest.

opinion DrJohnCGoodman No she is a total nut job and russia would walk other the botch

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