Straightforward practical question, prompted by several of Beebo's posts on the subject.
Among the many crimes to be laid at Trump's door is that he's gutted the federal government -- large numbers of senior and somewhat less senior posts have apparently long gone unfilled, or are filled by unconfirmed "Acting" officials, many of whom seem to be qualified by no more than their personal loyalty to Trump.
The Atlantic has a very good recent article on this, posted by Bartholomew in one of the many threads about Trump (sorry, can't remember which one):
How Trump is destroying the civil service and bending the government to his will
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As simple matter of practicality, implementing President Sanders' policies on health care will take a great deal of planning and staff training -- it's one thing to pass a law or sign an executive order, but actually carrying out the will of congress or the orders of the Chief Executive is a task for the civil service planners.
So it seems to me that, as a logical precursor to implementing any kind of health care reform, President Sanders is going to have to fill very many senior civil service posts in the affected departments, at the same time he's similarly trying to carry out similar repairs to damage done to many other key departments (Justice and State, certainly) and he'll also need to allow new officials time to get to know their departments and to begin to rebuild the staff's confidence and morale, which Trump has done so much to destroy.
And he'll be doing this, of course, while trying to deal with all the other duties of the the presidency, in both domestic and international affairs, in the midst of the immense, and as yet unknown and unknowable, social and economic consequences of what will, next January, be a continuing public health crisis brought about by Covid-19.
Simultaneously, he'll be trying urgently to do something to mitigate global heating and the climate crisis and implement the green new deal.
It's a huge and daunting agenda and I'm by no means convinced it's going to be possible, let alone desirable, to address health care reform without first addressing some problems even more urgent than health care provision.
How do you see Health Care Reform working out during President Sanders' first term? Forget about Congress for the moment -- assume he can do most of it by Executive Order, at the same time he's trying to revoke four years' worth of Trump's EOs.
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