{"id":11474,"date":"2018-10-26T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11474"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:30:28","slug":"medicare-for-all-is-as-scary-as-it-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/medicare-for-all-is-as-scary-as-it-gets\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Medicare for All’ is as scary as it gets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill<\/em><\/p>\n

There is no mystery as to what House Democrats want to do with American medical care. Their intentions are clearly spelled out in\u00a0House Resolution 676<\/a>, also known as the \u201cExpanded & Improved Medicare for All Act.\u201d<\/p>\n

Its sponsors promise to provide \u201ccomprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

These assurances, as sponsored by Rep.\u00a0John Conyers<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(D-Mich.) and his Democrat colleagues, carry as much weight as President Obama\u2019s promise that you can keep your medical insurance and your doctor under Obama Care.<\/p>\n

Only HR676 is much worse: You lose your primary health insurance, you cannot buy supplemental insurance (such as Medicare Advantage), and your medical care provider must be either public or non-profit, operating under the strictures of Washington bureaucrats.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill There is no mystery as to what House Democrats want to do with American medical care. Their intentions are clearly spelled out in\u00a0House Resolution 676, also known as the \u201cExpanded & Improved Medicare for All Act.\u201d Its sponsors promise to provide \u201ccomprehensive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1203,1099,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Z4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6659,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/new-coke-health-care\/","url_meta":{"origin":11474,"position":0},"title":"New Coke Health Care?","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0NRO's The Corner\u00a0 The president has compared the rollout disaster of Obamacare to temporary tech glitches with a new-model iPhone. 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