Democrats Embrace Single-Payer Health Care

[Jimbo101]

Political Wire

NY Times

“For years, Republicans savaged Democrats for supporting the Affordable Care Act, branding the law — with some rhetorical license — as a government takeover of health care,” the New York Times reports.

“Now, cast out of power in Washington and most state capitals, Democrats and activist leaders seeking political redemption have embraced an unlikely-seeming cause: an actual government takeover of health care.”

“At rallies and in town hall meetings, and in a collection of blue-state legislatures, liberal Democrats have pressed lawmakers, with growing impatience, to support the creation of a single-payer system, in which the state or federal government would supplant private health insurance with a program of public coverage.”

[vlyons]

1. When you go to a town hall, ask your congressman

Why can't we have a healthcare system like Australia or Japan, where healthcare costs person are about $5000 less than here in the US? Be sure to print out the following article and hand it out to people in the audience.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/health-costs-how-the-us-compares-with-other-countries/

[mitch96]

5. ask your congressman

Why we can't have health care like them?? They work for us after all..
oops, they don't they work for the lobbyist and the guys that fund their re elections..
squid pro quo...
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[DavidDvorkin]

2. Something good has come out of this awful mess we're in, after all.

[hedda_foil]

3. This piece winds up talking about the unpopularity of government health care ... not insurance.

Whether the author has it completely wrong or it was demanded from on high is not apparent. Of course UK style government health care would never be accepted here, but single payer health insurance as in Medicare for All would be.

[bresue]

4. Rublicans have 8 years of playing defensive

and now don't know how to be offensive.

Truly, Rublicans made Obama administration a nightmare getting the ACA passed. Many compromises had to be made which eventually diluted the good effect it was designed for. Many insurers left the market because they could only see a 9% return on it and so divested in mutual funds or pensions. Principal Financial out of Des Moines was one. And they will not go back to it. They have already divested all that particular product segment--terminating 3,000 employee staff...doctors, nurses, claims adjusters, and ect.

After 8 years of people seeing the good things of the program and understanding it more, people like the single payer and realize how important it is for our country. Rubs were given enough rope, and slowly are hanging themselves. No sympathy for not thinking for themselves, but repeating party rhetoric!