1.0 link 77980 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/california-health-reform-_b_77980.html One of the most puzzling turns in the healthcare debate has been the insistence of some politicians and observers that mandating health coverage is a "progressive" thing to do. As Jamie Court rightly observes, it's not. Medicare-For-All is the only truly progressive approach (although it has serious problems), while mandates - whether advisable or not - are not leftist or liberal by any recognizable historical definition. They are, in fact, "regressive" in both senses of the word - as...

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