I Seem to Remember.......

I seem to remember there was something like the individual mandate in Hillarycare, but I could be wrong about that. I do remember that people had been talking about socialized medicine for years. Some people swore by it and some people swore at it, but I think that most people believed we were going to get it sooner or later, since we were the only civilized nation in the world that didn't have it. All the doctors would be government employees, like policemen and firemen. There would be no charge to the patient at the time of service but, of course, we would all be paying for it with our taxes. It was my understanding that Hillary's committee was supposed to be working on that, but they came up with some kind of insurance scheme instead.

I know that lots of bills get proposed in Congress and never make it out of committee. Their sponsors may or may not know that the bill doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell, but they submit it anyway.  Maybe they just do that so they can brag about it when they are running for re-election. I am not aware that any kind of single payer plan has ever been submitted, yet that is what most people mean when they talk about government health care. All they keep giving us are these sweetheart deals for the insurance companies. I think that we both agree that the insurance companies are part of the problem, not part of the solution. How does anybody know for sure that a single payer plan would never pass when, to my knowledge, it has never been tried?

I saw a little bit about Trump on the TV news over the weekend. They interviewed both Cruz and Kasich, and they both said that their current strategy is to make it a three way race at the convention. If Trump gets a clear majority on the first ballot, then he gets the nomination, like it of not. If nobody gets a majority, they will eliminate the bottom guy and vote again. Last I heard, the delegates are only pledged for the first ballot, and can vote for anybody they want on subsequent ballots. The pledged delegates have no particular loyalty for the guy they are pledged to, they are just assigned to vote for him because that's how the vote in their state came out.

The news people also asked Trump if he would run a third party campaign if he didn't get the GOP nomination. Trump said that he would wait to see how he was treated at the convention before he would make that decision. I'm not sure what he means by that, but he may mean that he could be bought off by an offer of the VP nomination, or something like that. Of course, if Trump runs on a third party, it will take votes away from whoever wins the GOP nomination, and Hillary will win the election. Hillary will also win if Trump gets the nomination. Either way, it doesn't look good for our side.

I don't follow sports, but I remember that the Cubs are the North Side team and the Sox are the South Side team. If you are a Cubs fan, it would seem to indicate that, even though you were born and raised on the South Side, you have always been a North Sider at heart. This might explain why you don't want to own a car, since the streets on the North Side are too narrow and there's no place to park. At least that's what I was always told right after, "There is nothing on the North Side that you need to see."