Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Medicare for All and Insurance for None?

The demagogue-socialist-authoritarian-power-luster Bernie Sanders is very critical of private health insurance and wants to eliminate such insurance provided by employers, at least private for-profit employers. (Medigap and Medicare Advantage insurance will not be considered here.) His own website proposes separating health insurance from employment. But how sincere and consistent is he? Or is it lying propaganda?

Does BS intend eliminating insurance provided only by private for-profit employers or all employers? In other words, would he end all health insurance now provided to employees by the federal government, state governments, local governments, non-profits, unions, and public school systems? By what moral principle should those employees be more privileged than anybody else? If they continued to have employer-paid healthcare but nobody else, it would be a gross inequality and gross injustice. Government employees, union members, and public school teachers would get benefits denied to anybody else not a member of the privileged class. The not privileged would be treated as inferior, second rate citizens. The not privileged class with no insurance except Medicare would be forced to pay via taxes (and inflation) to serve the privileged, most of whose entire pay comes from taxes. The result would be a two-tier system -- one for government employees plus other favored groups, and a second, inferior one for the rest. It would be a two-tier system of masters and their servants. It would exemplify the situation in George Orwell's novel Animal Farm: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." This is a proclamation made by the pigs who control the government in the novel. It is a comment on the hypocrisy of governments that proclaim the equality of their citizens but give power and privileges to a chosen elite.

BS claims to be a champion of equality, yet advocates Medicare for All which would treat all but the politically-privileged far worse. His advancing the power of the political ruling class and the subjugation and looting of the productive members of society is his primary goal, and has been for the last 40 years.

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