Opinion: The campaign to destroy Medicare-for-all has already begun
By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 13 at 3:47 PM As Democrats try to figure out precisely what kind of health-care reform they want to pursue if they regain power in Washington, the industries who would be affected by reform aren’t waiting around.
These kinds of junkets are not uncommon, but it shows how the groundwork is already being laid to defeat Medicare-for-all long before there’s a Democratic nominee with a proposal that he or she is promising to pursue, let alone legislation that stands a chance of becoming law. Affordability, options, access, innovation — all that sounds great! And you can watch this video the group produced, which for the first minute and a half seems like a friendly Vox explainer on how the U.S. health-insurance system works, but then takes a dark turn to saying how Medicare-for-all will destroy everything good about health care, full of Republican talking points.
PAHCF is only getting started, by doing such things as placing op-eds; in March, Libby Watson wrote a revealing article for Splinter on how the “ordinary Americans" writing those op-eds and getting quoted on the partnership’s behalf all turn out to PR executives with insurance-company clients, people in the insurance industry, Republican officials, and the like.
And the truth is they stand an excellent chance of winning that fight. This is a classic collective-action problem, as Mancur Olson explained half a century ago. You have a group of concentrated interests with a great deal to lose on one side, and a much larger group of diffuse interests on the other side.
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