cobra, it allows you to extend your health insurance after you left your old company. for kids who are not covered on their parents insurance for some reason, there is a health insurance program that s specific to kids, it s called s-chip, and all of those fixes arranged by the government, all of those fixes do work in their own way for the people they are designed to serve. honestly, cobra sucks, because ç it s expensive, but everything else works, medicare is beloved and much lower overhead costs than the private insurance system, but for everybody that s not covered by those policy patches we ve come up with, one of those fixes, the system has just been still based on that initial accidental non-system of private insurance through the place where you work, and that system means very, very expensive care, it means out of control rising and unpredictable costs for american businesses who are providing that coverage, which is a responsibility that, frankly, their international compet
have been talking about trying to move their states to an even more cogent system, to a single-payer system, that gets rid of the expensive bureaucratic layer and expands medicare to cover everybody. both of those states, incidentally, border canada, which has that kind of a system and apparently that kind of a system looks good from up close. but for the country as a whole, today was a landmark day. today was a victory for policy, for the now apparently totally partisan notion that if we see problems, systemic problems in our country, we should try to solve them using our constitutional small deed democratic representative american system of government.ç it was a historic plan of flag, state your position stay today, a declaration politics of something other than just for fighting, it s for policy, for trying to tackle and surmount even our most entrenched problems. today, there is a freak out on the right, much strategizing on
now, a few practical, pretty non-ideological forward-thinking states like vermont and montana have been talking about trying to move their states to an even more cogent system, to a single-payer system, that gets rid of the expensive bureaucratic layer and expands medicare to cover everybody. both of those states, ç incidentally, border canada, which has that kind of a system and apparently that kind of a system looks good from up close. but for the country as a whole, today was a landmark day. today was a victory for policy, for the now apparently totally partisan notion that if we see problems, systemic problems in our country, we should try to solve them using our constitutional small deed democratic representative american system of government. it was a historic plan of flag, state your position stay today, a declaration politics of something other than just for fighting, it s for policy, for trying to tackle and surmount
political kudule, it would have undone the greatest legislative achievement of president obama s first term, one of the greatest democratic achievements ever, and their caricature of him as an overreaching president would have moved mainstream, so there was great potential reward for republicans in having challenged this law, had they won, and the risk to them was, frankly, not that big. the republicans did lose badly at the court, but they are where they were before in politics, vehemently opposed to health care reform, but their own idea for what we ought to do is still we ought to kill medicare, which is the one thing in our health care system that everybody likes and everybody agrees is sort of working, so that s baggage a for them, baggage b for them is their presidential nominee is a guy that did this exact same health reform policy at the state level, so that s where republicans were before the ruling and after the ruling too,
obviously, would have had a huge political cudgel, it would have undone the greatest legislative achievement of president obama s first term, one of the greatest democratic achievements ever, and their caricature of him as an overreaching president would have moved mainstream, so there was great potential reward for republicans in having challenged this law, had they won, and the risk to them was, frankly, not that big. the republicans did lose badly at the court, but they are where they were before in politics, vehemently opposed to health care reform, but their own idea for what we ought to do is still we ought to kill medicare, which is the one thing in our health care system that everybody likes and everybody agrees is sort of working, so that s baggage a for them, baggage b for them is their presidential nominee is a guy that did this exact same health reform policy at the state level, so that s where republicans were before the ruling and after the ruling too,