Tim Knowles
Aug 31, 2018 · 2 min read

If the only countries out performing us are in Scandinavia, Japan, Korea and Northern Europe we are doing pretty good. Would I like us to do better? Yes.

It is unlikely we can do better than Norway except in the distant future. Norway is a country that has nationalized it oil wealth and uses those revenues to run its government, the government has a surplus not a deficit.

Some of what you say is true but you are spinning it very hard to make it seem achievable.

You make no effort to explain how we would get from here to a National Health Care system. Even Burnie is not proposing a National Health Care system but instead a version of Medicare for all which isn’t even single payer, still has gaps and copays.

The way you attack the “how we would pay for it” still seems like a wealth inequality platform not really a “National Health Care” platform.

Yes, if we really want “National Health Care” we could find a way to pay for it. More taxes, more debt, less military spending, cuts to hospitals, cuts to prescription costs, and reduced health care workers pay. Eventually the benefits from better health care would show up but they are pretty small in day one.

In the realm of what is possible, the only plan that could get the needed votes would be Medicare for all paid for by more deficit spending with maybe, maybe some small reductions in the military budget and some closing of tax loop holes. Could you support that?

Do you think anything better could gain broad public support and pass into law if the Democrats gain the presidency and control of both houses of congress. Do you think any Democrat presidential candidate who supported true “National Health Care” along the lines of Canadian and European models could win the nomination?

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