2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you buy into the single payer fantasy of Sanders? [View all]Nanjeanne
(4,960 posts)Because Bernie was brave enough to,put out a plan with details unlike Clinton and he is being scrutinized like crazy. The vision is correct and it works in every other industrialized country better than what we have here. So I'm willing to admit that there will need to be tweaks in the plan and I'm fine with that. But it's a fact that other countries do this and cover all their people, have better outcomes and cost less. I'm sure we can do better as well if we TRY. All other countries whether public or private insurance based, make it illegal to make a profit on basic healthcare. And please do not bring up Netherlands. They, along with Switzerland do have private health insurance systems but they are non- profit. They only make profit on the add on services.
I will gladly pay additional tax to have actual health CARE. I do not want to continue paying thousands of dollars for health insurance.
So YES I can't wait until there is discussion again about real answers to our health care problem. As soon as we start electing brave people who are willing to stand up to the insurance lobby.