It is profoundly ironic that the soi disant “reality-based” community remains so doggedly out of touch with reality where single-payer health care is concerned. An excellent example can be found in the following passage from Corpus Callosum praising the latest faux-populist rant from Dennis Kucinich:
Finally, we have a nice succinct statement from a politician on the subject of health care coverage.
This preposterous assertion is then followed by a pre-emptive dismissal of any alternative viewpoint:
Most of the stated objections are based upon ideological concerns, totally divorced from any sort of objectivity.
One hates to puncture such smug self-assurance, but the myriad objections to Kucinich’s “Medicare for all” proposal do not depend on ideology. In fact, we can apply “objectivity” to the congressman’s proposal merely by looking at Medicare in its current incarnation as a single-payer plan for the elderly. As I point out in this post, that program is grotesque mare’s nest of bureaucratic red tape and perverse incentives.
Kucinich knows this, of course, but he’s betting on the naiveté of the electorate. Sadly, the gullibility of the “reality-based” community suggests that it’s a good bet.
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