2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSingle Payer: I had a visit with my Doctor today.
HE said that he and the other doctors he knows all support SINGLE PAYER!
HE said that they are sick of dealing with Insurance Companies.
My doctor and his buddies support Single Payer. Why Doesn't Hillary?
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)It never came. In contrast to waiting, Sen. Sanders is leading the revolution.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)pnwmom
(108,994 posts)even with the available funds from the ACA that allowed for the state to substitute single payer for the exchanges.
If even Vermont couldn't get it through their liberal legislature, how do you think we could pass it on a national basis?
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)...right NOW, when the Democrats are still being beaten up about "Obamacare" there is no window for consideration of Single Payer.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)they will get beat up by corporate media and anyone with "R" behind their name.
Time to get a spine and lead on what is right.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)If you worry about whether Republicans like you or not NOTHING GOOD WILL HAPPEN
http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/Chart_of_Americans_Support
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)I worked for her for awhile and she spent huge amounts of time fighting with insurance companies on behalf of her patients.
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)told her to be against it.
Hillary's motivations are really easy to figure out.
gordyfl
(598 posts)Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)Wonder why that is.
stupidicus
(2,570 posts)because she's a 3rdway corporatist and wants to keep the "market" in it
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/hillary-clinton-likes-oba_b_4881399.html
MeNMyVolt
(1,095 posts)And, because a good chunk of people don't support it. What have you done to change that, besides posting on an internet forum?
rladdi
(581 posts)Politicians make laws all the time with no background or knowledge of the subject they are dealing with. Most are in office to live off the tax payers for the rest of their lives. they get good pay for doing NOTHING and great benefits.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I call it, "Medicare For All".
Just eliminate the age requirement.
Done.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)For example, add an out-of-pocket cap for part B and rework part D.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Other countries don't scam and con on healthcare.
We turned healthcare into a multi-trillion dollar industry that drains the rest of the economy and then we claim it would be a multi-trillion dollar blow to the economy to eliminate it.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)He'd far prefer not to have to employ so many people just to wade through all the different insurance companies, and plans within those companies.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)That's why