Chris Matthews, Ezra Klein Identify Strategy To Impose ‘De Facto Single Payer System’

[Tx4obama]

VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-matthews-ezra-klein-identify-strategy-to-impose-de-facto-single-payer-system/

On Wednesday, Hardball host Chris Matthews and Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein discussed the potential for all or part of President Obama’s health care reform law to be ruled unconstitutional in the Supreme Court and the ways in which progressives could move forward with health care reform in a post-Affordable Care Act world. Klein confirmed conservative’s latest fear: striking down the health care law could pave the way for a single payer system that could be implemented over time through the budget reconciliation process in the Senate. ... <SNIP>

[TheWraith]

1. It's not happening.

If the ACA gets struck down, healthcare reform is going to be considered politically radioactive for at least 20 or 30 years. There is no magical single-payer solution to that. Nobody will touch it.

[msongs]

3. first you need a president willing to lead on this, then keep coming back til it DOES happen...nt

[orwell]

2. Explain to me how you get this House to sign on...

...to anything like that.

[TrollBuster9090]

4. I could be wrong, but I think the President can take an executive order pen

and lower the age for Medicare eligibility to ZERO. With full coverage and a 3% overhead, nobody would ever buy private insurance again, thus driving all the HMOs out of business. No HMOs, no political resistance or lobby money to block a single payer system...and Bob's your uncle.

[sabrina 1]

5. I like the way you think.