15. He failed to say that Medicare For All could be put into place very simply, just by extending much-loved Medicare A and B to cover everyone. There would be no need to create any new bureaucracies or frighten anyone with a change to a new and unknown system, since Medicare is already familiar to almost everyone and is already known for its success with those over 65, the highest-risk and most expensive age group of all.
That's what he could have said. And he could have ended up with a clarion call for real reform, already favored by a majority of Americans and their physicians: single-payer Medicare For All.
What a speech that would have been. Imagine the state of the country today if he had applied his talents to that speech, instead of the brilliant defense of the indefensible he chose to deliver.
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