There really is only one way to go, and we can only get there by all rowing in the same direction at the same time and forcing the federal government to enact, and fully fund, single-payer healthcare – Medicare For All.
In the end, it is not the rage of our critics that we have to concern ourselves with. It is the silence of our friends that allow this anti-intellectualism to destroy people who have fought round the clock to bring these truths to life.
Most states struggle to meet pension funding needs – and the pandemic will make it worse.
With this kind of leadership, it is no wonder the Democrats lost House seats in the highest turn out election of all time.
“The state-based strategy relies on states passing their own healthcare systems… they must fund these programs on their own… This constraint means only a very few states are even capable of carrying out this strategy.”
To pass meaningful healthcare reform, we must meaningfully pressure politicians and their donors by threatening the former with loss of their seat and the latter with loss of their extracted wealth.
States are seeing enormous budget shortfalls because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the consequences for teachers and other public school employees could be dire.
