Trump Loves Socialized Medicine
“Well, you’re certainly going to socialist. You’re going to socialist medicine.”
- POTUS Trump, Tuesday night, Presidential Debate.
By JM Hamilton (10-3-2020)
The news flow was dizzying this week.
Tuesday’s Trump – Biden debate was pretty much what we expected, complete and utter chaos. Trump’s record is so abysmal -- the economy is down 31% GDP, as of the last quarter -- that all the president can pretty much do is throw ad hominem attacks at Biden.
Key in the Tuesday night attacks was Trump’s efforts to link Biden to Medicare for All, and socialized medicine. Of course, poll after poll shows that socialized medicine is a winner with the American people, as is the US Military, Medicare, and Social Security.
Last I checked, all socialist programs.
If Trump was smart on this issue, he would have tossed Obamacare to the curb, as he promised in 2016, and replaced it with Medicare for All. But a Medicare for All conversion means -- if run properly, w/ no privatized looting -- approximately an extra $2 trillion in GDP, per annum, would not be flowing to private sector healthcare … in one the biggest frauds the world has ever seen. For further clarification, see my piece, Medicare For All.
Friday, of course, is when the proverbial chickens came home to roost. Trump, who notoriously played down the virus, to prevent a panic (and in the process killed tens of thousands of Americans) … came down with the virus. As did – as of this writing – several GOP Senators at a super-spreader event: The SCOTUS - nominee - launch party for Justice Barrett, last weekend.
And here is the icing on this week’s chamber of horrors: After Trump attempted to trash Biden over socialized medicine … when the chips were down and the POTUS was facing a life or death crisis, did he jet off to the best private sector hospital & physicians money could buy, on the taxpayer’s dime? Did he jet in the best medical equipment and private sector physicians – taxpayers can buy – to the White House grounds?
Nope, Trump choppers into Walter Reed, home of the best socialized medicine American taxpayers can buy.
Reminds me of a piece I wrote almost a year ago… Trump couldn’t rein in the Big Pharma murderers, as promised, so he attempted to lean on Canada – the Medicare for All capitol of the world – for socialized meds and pharmaceuticals.
It’s pretty clear, at this point in the pandemic, that the US for-profit healthcare system is a complete national disgrace and embarrassment. Many of our allies that used to look up to the United States, now pity Americans, during Trump’s reign. And since all Western democracies – excepting the United States – are on some form of universal care (w/ generous state subsidies), it is easy to conclude that much of the pity for Americans deals w/ our lousy – ultra-expensive – healthcare system.
You know, the American healthcare system that is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy, and also, has the world's highest pandemic body count.
I’m sure the irony never dawned on Trump, as he fled the White House grounds to Walter Reed for the best healthcare within the United States … socialized medicine.
Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2020
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