Reply #24: I honestly think that's the only way we'll get it ..... [View All]

[Stinky The Clown]

.... and while I see this as a *very long* long shot, the current financial mess the Repubics put us in may be the roadmap to single payer. Our companies simply can't compete without lowering labor costs - or with seeing labor costs elsewhere rise dramatically. One way to get a good chunk of our labor costs off the backs of big (and not so big) bidniss is to relieve them of health care and retirement costs - fringe benefits.

Take the cost of healthcare and reallocate it as a tax on everyone - including bidniss. Take out the profit motive (i.e.: kill the insurance industry dead), hire former insurance company employees into the single payer system, and move on. The net result will be more care for less cost since everyone is contributing.

If we also cancel a few DoD programs and a war or two, we'll be awash in cash to pay for this.