8 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Something has occurred to me that I hope occurs to the Biden campaign.

 

The Covid-19 situation has changed everything, including of course the election.

 

It will now not simply be a referendum of 45 but specifically a referendum on his performance in response to Covid-19.

 

Covid-19 has laid bare some horrific truths about the American medical system and indeed inequalities in general.

 

I have no doubt that Joe Biden has the goal of universal health care just as do almost all democrats and the majority of all Americans.

 

Now is the time. This crisis is the time.

 

How did the UK get their wonderful jewel the NHS after World War 2 while the US did not?

 

Because the UK more or less had to. They were devastated by WW2 domestically in a way the US was not.

This is now a wartime like situation in the U.S. We will have one of the most severe recessions ever if not a full blown depression. 

 

If not now for fast progress for universal health care under Biden, when?

 

Of course 45 won't do it. He's all about his gaslighting daily reality show.

 

Would it be ironic for Biden to be the man to effect this historic progress rather than Bernie? Perhaps. But it actually makes a lot of sense practically and politically. Biden is less threatening to mainstream Americans and by shifting on this issue to the left, he unifies both the Bernie base and also the majority of Americans that really want this but thought it was impossible before.

 

That could be the argument. It's not possible or at the very least not ethical or moral to continue with the status quo now. 

 

Duh! Biden is being termed "the accidental president". He has been characterized as an extremely lazy if likeable politician. There is no way, absent Trump's election that Biden would even be among the Democrat list of candidates for the presidency. He is that bad. Still, if he can find his spine, he might be able to make a difference. Bear in mind any progress Biden could ever hope to make will be over the objections of his own donors. The people will be for it and IMO the Republicans will be in the minority in both houses. So if it doesn't pass it will be because the Democrat elite doesn't want it to pass.

Also bearin mind that just making the current systen available universally WILL banrupt the country. The whole model of how healthcare is delivered and paid for has to change. Doctors should be paid based on keeping people healthy and of course we need twice as may of them too.