Medicare For All . . . One Of These Days

Most readers know I'm a big fan of Obamacare.  Any day now, the Supreme Court will rule in the matter of King v. Burwell, an absurd lawsuit which claims that premium subsidies are allowable only in the handful of states with state-run insurance exchanges, not in those with federal exchanges.  (You can refresh your memory by clicking the link to Buster's "Four Little Words" post of earlier this year.)

http://bustergammons.blogspot.com/2015/03/four-little-words.html

I fully expect SCOTUS to find against the plaintiff and preserve Obamacare intact.  It's been the law of the land for five years and has helped tens of millions of people already, including your humble correspondent.  But what do I know?

Hard-ass conservatards hate Obamacare because it dares to tweak our existing profit-driven system.  It's a tiny tweak, but a tweak nonetheless.  The righties fear that Obamacare is just the first step toward a government-run, single-payer, universal health care system . . . a public option, like Medicare.

My God, let's hope so!  Here's Robert Reich: