Quote (fender @ 17 Mar 2020 13:06)
Liberal argument #1: the administration has completely failed at steering and preparing the healthcare system for coronavirus, its handling of this pandemic has been utter failure.
Liberal argument #2: we should abolish all private healthcare and let the government run everything.
See the problem? A medicare for all progam implies that private insurance is abolished and the government is indirectly also dictating hospitals and physicians how to run their business (because the government will be their only major client and hold all power over them). This idea is only attractive if the government can be counted on to be competent, efficient and benevolent. All experience points in the opposite direction: the government is definitely not reliably competent, it is only rarely efficient, and from the pov of a liberal, the Trump administration is evidence that it doesnt even need to be benevolent.
A public option, as proposed by Biden, is the better approach, no doubt about that. It's also polling significantly better than medicare for all:
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"While a solid 42 percent of Americans supported Medicare for All, an even larger 51 percent opposed it. Meanwhile, in the same poll, 58 percent supported Biden’s plan for a public option that would compete with private insurance (only 35 percent opposed it). While Medicare for All enjoyed 63 percent support among Democrats, it was anathema to independents, who said 57 percent to 37 percent that it was a bad idea. (Republicans, unsurprisingly, were even more strongly opposed.)"
http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/UPDATED_NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_1912131159.pdf#page=3https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/sanders-poll-quiz/