2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you buy into the single payer fantasy of Sanders? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)young families, I have to say.
But I agree with you. Single payer is our goal, and it will be reached step by step.
Obamacare is a starting point. I have always believed that.
I am disappointed that Hillary has rejected the idea of single payer rather than agreeing with Bernie that it is the goal.
Rome was not built in a day.
Single payer is the right direction for our country.
We first need to make sure that every man, woman and child in our country is insured. And then we will realize that it is cheaper to do that with single payer and non-profit insurance.
There are a number of different models in Europe for single payer, and we can look at those more carefully than we have, and then find our own way to make sure that health care, affordable health care is available to everyone and that we make it a priority by taking the amounts that the health care cost out of our paychecks as a percentage of our earning, put all that money into one pot and with the money in that pot, insure everyone.
No one should profit from the money we all together put into that pot.
And we should more strongly and effectively encourage healthy lifestyles, which of course, includes trying to find out why we are such a violent society and what we can do about it.