Bernie Sanders may break health care pledge

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I think the main problem with healthcare pledges is that nobody (aside from the Republicans, who would surely use the chance to destroy Obamacare even more) really wants open a huge can of worms in regards to healthcare. Better to gradually phase in "Medicare for all" - steadily eliminate out of pocket payments, constantly push costs down by cost control (especially in regards to drugs), sneak public option into some amendment and call it the " Joe Lieberman Act", continue to bribe states to accept Medicaid Expansion (much of the stragglers are gradually returning back to the fold, you don't want to freak them out by reopening the debate) and bribe them to go even further irt single-payer. It would probably be a bit of a shock to the system if you killed off 90% of the private healthcare industry off the bat, so best to slip in to universal coverage pool gently.

Sanders does tend to be worst of both worlds - his reforms are both impossible to pass and kind of namby-pamby liberalish mush. Should have ran on something crazy radical, like nationalising the banks or workplace democracy or mutualisation or a genuine shift in foreign policy; instead it's weaksauce Redditbait.