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In reply to the discussion: Are some on DU hoping Single Payer Health care fails? [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I really do.
But we shouldn't pretend that the status quo, even with the improvements brought by the ACA, is any great shakes either. That it couldn't be better. Or that we can't learn from other countries.
My feeling- and I'm not a Senator OR a "Health Care Expert"- is that the most logical way to get to a SPHC would be through filling in the gaps via expansion of medicare on one end and expansion of medicaid on the other, until the whole board is covered.
And lets talk about whats wrong with it. And lets have a real talk about the other elephant in the room, the cost book or cost tome or whatever it is called:
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,2136864,00.html
Medicare's not perfect, but it's also been pretty successful at its primary goal, namely providing health insurance to a group of people- old people- who would traditionally not be looked favorably upon by profit-driven insurance companies for some pretty obvious reasons. If it can work for old people, at least somewhat, it can probably work for everyone else.