u/Rubbersoulrevolver

Some grounding agreements:

1. Health coverage shouldn't be tied to employment

2. Healthcare should be cheaper at the point of service at the very least

3. Much more things should be covered and in general there should be less denials

Having granted all that, why is Medicare for All in the way it's implemented in H.R.3069 - Medicare for All Act the best way for us?

According to the CBO which analyzed the 2019 bill, this bill would require between $1.5 T and $3.0T annually. This would mean Medicare payroll taxes would have to at least triple, since Medicare Part A gets around $300B annually. So the 3% payroll tax would immediately have to jump to 9% to keep the TF solvent (the 2025-6 bill has the payroll tax go to 5% for people >150% of poverty but this is way under what the actual cost would be).

This would also destroy 100s of 1000s of jobs in the medical insurance field, which would devastate states like Minnesota which have a ton of jobs from UHC and others.

And finally, expanding Medicare to all would drastically increase the usage of healthcare basically overnight without any thought to expand the supply of doctors, hospital capacity or anything of that nature.

Whereas more sensible plans like Buttigieg's plan from 2019 has almost none of these downsides.

This is my first sports/football game that I've played and I'd love to get better at finding open receivers, seeing blitzes, navigating the pocket but I find that the practice tool is pretty difficult and the only option (seems to be?) choosing random defensive playcalls rather than intelligently picking defensive alignments.

Do you guys have any suggestions on ways to get better in this game in-game?

Let's assume that Dems decide to go into a socialist direction with AOC/Omar/Sanders-esque policies. How would that positively change the map for Dems?

I personally see significant risk in losing senate seats in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia at least but I don't see how any other states would be in play.

How would this new vision of the party make gains anywhere that isn't a Solid Democratic state?

Compare this to the idea to moderate way more (in an Ossoff/Warnock mode) which could possibly make Ohio, Montana, Alaska, maybe even Nebraska or North Dakota back in play.

Chuck Schumer was able to get a maximum possible win this week and no one is talking about it.

Because Schumer was able to play hardball with ICE/DHS funding, Republicans were forced to draw down OBBBA money instead of using the normally appropriated funds. Republicans still need to fund those agencies though, so they planned on doing that through reconciliation (which is a win in and of itself since you only get a limited amount of bites at that apple)

But now the Republicans are hitting a snag. They have several problems including the Trump slush fund and may have no way to split the baby so the mods and the extreme rightists are both happy.

But you won't hear this from anywhere - not mainstream media like CNN, definitely not (almost all of) alt media which hate Schumer, certainly not certain twitch streamers who celebrate when Democratic senators get investigated by the Trump Administration.

Pre-buttals:

R: Who cares?

A: You should. This is exactly the way you get things done from the minority.

R: Any one else could have done this.

A: Uhhh, source? Schumer's best ability is his ability to keep the caucus pretty much in lock step

R: Doesn't count because <irrelevant thing>

A: Wow, nice pivot

The ACA was a bold, pragmatic way to reform healthcare in this country. It capped insurance profits; it disallowed discrimination based on past illness; it changed the way hospitals had to do business; and so much more.

The result? The biggest electoral reaction in America history where Dems lost ground everywhere including normally solid elections like Massachusetts and Hawaii. They lost state legislatures for 2 decades because redistricting allowed extreme Republican gerrymanders in Wisconsin and North Carolina and their respective Supreme Courts.

Many leftists say that Democrats are bought and paid for because they're not single-issue Medicare For All partisans. But why would they be when they already touched the stove once and were severely burned?