Medicare For All

It's the solution progressives like Krugman had for the health care reform issue. But you knew it wasn't going to happen.
But wait, maybe it is.
Remember when the big money boys all wanted to privatize Social Security? And how they got beat back by a bunch of organizations who — rightly — alerted seniors to the scam?
Well, I had a few minutes and got to prowling the net looking for the answer to my burning question "who is the Coalition for Medicare Advantage" that tried to scare the bejeesus out of this old lady with one of its robocalls telling me my Medicare benefits are under threat.
Turns out, of course, that they're the child of Coalition for Medicare Choices which in turn is the child of American Health Care Plans or AHIP, the big-bucks player in the health insurance reform battle.
And the thinking is, if they keep getting the government to allow them to bleed the Medicare system to the tune of $15 billion a year,in overpayments Medicare will fail and they can take over.
It's all here in an impressive article for The Nation by the woman who is head of the health reporting program in NYU's journalism program.
It's the kind of in-depth stuff the MSM isn't giving you because, frankly, they're lazy and they're corrupt and ...and...

CORRECTION:
Trudy Lieberman, who writes frequently for The Nation on health policy, is director of the health and medicine reporting program at the Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.