The Right’s real answer to Universal Coverage: No Coverage

Paul Krugman points out:

the cost-saving measures under consideration now — which are the first real effort to tackle Medicare costs, ever — are pooh-poohed, because they’re part of a plan that would expand coverage, not contract it.

This is keeping with almost all of the objections from the right wing and sympathizing establishment pundits and politicians. They talk about providing this or that benefit, but really all they want to do is eliminate benefits, or fair wages, or greater progressivity in taxation or regulation so that they can maintain the status quo where they (the top 1 or 2 percent) own and control the wealth of the planet and determine the futures of everyone else.

And they really don’t care about anyone else since they’re all right, Jack.