It is time for a new treatment plan for what ails American health care, one that gets to the root cause of the problem and that both parties can unite around. It is not lack of coverage that is causing health care costs to rise. Instead, it is high health care prices and high health care demand.
In 2016, I supported an outsider candidate, who was rough around the edges and in the Andrew Jackson school of controversial assaults on the old order. When my candidate won, it was blamed on the Russians. Now, people in my world are told it is time to stop resisting and cooperate with the new president.
Raphael Warnock is indeed the most radical candidate for US Senate we have ever seen. If he wins, there will be many more to come, and America will indeed be changed – into something much worse.
Yeager should be an inspiration to younger Americans. If you have the courage and the determination, you can accomplish many things – and you can have an amazing life doing it. Yeager exemplifies American Exceptionalism at the individual citizen level. We all owe him a lifetime of gratitude for his lifetime of service and courage on behalf of our country.
The national implications of the Georgia race go from coast to coast. Democratic Minority Leader and New York Sen. Chuck Schumer promised to “take Georgia” and then “change the world.”
Every Republican can take some confidence in these tumultuous times that at the grassroots and in the states there is a Republican tsunami building which is going to overwhelm the imagined blue wave and create dynamic opportunities in 2021 and 2022.
If the turkey isn’t as big this year – or isn’t there at all – let’s be thankful that the underlying economy is strong, and things will improve. Jobs will return. Opportunities will return, and America will succeed.
The likely prospect of divided government in Washington means that major health legislation is unlikely anytime soon. But this does not mean big insurance companies can count on the status quo for long. Three interlocking trends are conspiring to dramatically reduce the role of big insurance companies in the American health care system.
I don’t know if the House Democratic losses in 2022 will be as big as 1994 or 2010, but I am convinced they will be big enough to make McCarthy the next Speaker of the House.
