[lbo-talk] Cloward-Piven strategy for single payer?

[Max Sawicky]

Medicaid spending has burgeoned through the ages of Reagan, Clinton,
and both Bushes, not to mention the reigns of a multitude of
retrograde state government officials, who influence the size of each
state's Medicaid program.

The threat to entitlements is interesting because any big compromise
on entitlements would have to include tax increases, and the GOP has
worked themselves into such a krazy korner that none of them can
possibly endorse a tax increase under any circumstances.  Moreover,
there are also their hypocritical screams about cuts to Medicare --
the other half of the entitlement fix scissors.  Unless the Dems build
a veto-proof, Rubinoid, pro-entitlement cut majority, it's hard to see
how it happens.  (For anyone who just got here from Mars, I'm dead set
against any such policy.)

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:51 PM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Of course, in the present environment, this would lead to calls to shred
>> Medicaid.
>
> But the present environment just produced a major expansion of Medicaid.
>
> SA
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