Hey, let’s all listen to the Democratic Congressional aides on here and remember that change is incremental! Let’s not be bamboozled by uppity young, charismatic representatives who think that should be trying to change all this difficult stuff right away! Comity! Patience!
You’re putting the cart way before the horse. What I want to see is an honest attempt at M4A with actual support from Democratic leadership. If they’re not willing to do that and if they keep spouting dishonest reasons for why it won’t work without trying, I don’t want to hear from them.
I’m sorry, but as I go down that list I seen a non-top array of acts that were radical and nearly instantaneous in their roll-outs. Together they had much wider-ranging and more transformative effects than implementing Medicare-for-all.
I actually think there are compelling reasons for believing “if it’s not single-payer it’s not good enough,” and the key one is that it’s eminently possible. Medicare-for-all may be the very easiest and least-complicated way to change healthcare radically for the better, and perhaps you do agree that healthcare in…
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We have already seen you admit that you are a troll for the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. That is all.
That’s one. It’s a significant one, I’ll admit. I’ll name y0u another major one now that I think of it, which is Japan.
So your point IS that we should all be suffering (and often dying) so as not to rock the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Got it.
Given that Canada, UK, Taiwan, South Korea, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland (among many others) are on the single payer model, which countries do you recommend we emulate?
Because it’s a lie that is meant to misdirect people’s anger on the subject. This country has the capacity to make important, needed, radical change to the social safety net and it has proven that repeatedly.
Single-payer healthcare is a type of universal healthcare[1] financed by taxes that covers the costs of essential healthcare for all residents, with costs covered by a single public system (hence ‘single-payer’
If you get a chance, ask him if the history book says anything about Medicare and Medicaid dismantling and/or decimating large segments of the economy. In fact, ask him to find some examples of the United States government successfully, and with unwavering public support, destroying whole industries.
Hong Kong and Puerto Rico are literally showing us the way but we are ignoring it.
I actually lean to your way of thinking, but I like pointing out that what you describe has the net effect of being a Republican troll.
How it’s achieved matters greatly. Even if you don’t go bankrupt it doesn’t need to and SHOULDN’T be a major part of your finances. It doesn’t have to be that way. We can have health care that isn’t a real drain on anyone. It happens. And having a profit-motive being the driving force within a laissez-faire framework i…