Republicans are about to make Medicare-for-all much more likely

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9. good points.

it would have been interesting if democrats could have yanked all the republican amendments after republicans reneged on their promises. no doubt democratic leaders wanted to strike while the iron was hot, as it was looking rather iffy for a while that we would get all our "own" people in line.

and i agree, the truly "conservative" plan was simply to leave it alone, let insurance companies continue to jack up rates, let more and more people continue to not be able to afford insurance, etc. hey, free market, yay, right?

though "right-wing" and "conservative" aren't always the same thing, and using the government to deliver customers to big industry certainly sounds right-wing, if not particularly conservative.

i'm not sure how much the original heritage plan had in the way of subsidies, i certainly have to think it didn't include much in the way of taxes, certainly not tilted toward the rich. i imagine the subsidies are also (in addition to the tax structure) part of how obama made the heritage plan more liberal.