Warren and most politicians do not have any idea how health care works. Most Democrats repeat falsehood after falsehood about how Medicare for All is affordable, because they are ideologues.

What Medicare for All does do is create a pathway for unlimited health care funding in the minds of many progressive liberals through the ability of the Federal government to tax its citizens for whatever it takes to pay for it. To every American that takes off their rose colored glasses for one second, the ludicrousness of this should be evidenced by the fact that the government has not figured out how to fund the current Social Security and Medicare programs. And so we have a trillion dollar deficit.

Without taking the analogy to far this reminds of the theory that some businesses seem to embrace which I often describe as the “rock theory”. Under the rock theory if a business is sinking then the solution is to merge it with another sinking business and that somehow two rocks have a better chance of floating then one. Hint, they both sink.

Note, I am not saying universal health care is not possible… only some form of Medicare for all… is simply tying a new rock to one that is already sinking. Let’s figure out how to fix the “sinking” rock before we tie any other rocks to it. Otherwise, when Medicare sinks, it will drag that many more people down.

Warren’s health care plan died because she never really had a plan, what she had was an “ideology” that said government should pay for health care as a “right”. A plan needs far more thought and needs to be constructed by someone that understands health care not only at the theory level (the problem with the design of ObamaCare), but at the day to day nuts and bolts level.

If we are going to offer universal access to health care it will have to be a very different delivery model than we have now in order to lower costs and one that relies as little as necessary on the Federal government for funding. Quite different from the single payer concept. Government has an important role to play in any health care model, but it cannot effectively perform all the roles to create a universally available and affordable health care system.