2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders, Automation, and the Fate of the US [View all]Baobab
(4,667 posts)Accept no substitutes because fake single payer is actually completely unworkable and actually costs more money than what we are doing now!
Real single payer has to be free because of WTO GATS Article I:3 (b) and (c) and it has to be the only payer meaning insurance doesnt exist. Everybody, rich and poor has to be in the same system, no iers. Because the poor will be so powerless and the rich so powerful that the requirement that the rich use it is very important to keep the system working. Otherwise the system of last resort for the poor only after all their money has been taken away, because of competition theory. (crowd out to be specific)
People with chronic illnesses who don't have money basically have to choose between dropping out of the workforce or working and not getting medical care at all.
So dont get sick. Also deregulation of everything will leave people wide open to all sorts of toxic chemicals - so people will live short lives and get cancer in their 40s or 50s and die unless they cab afford wildly expensive drugs (even generic drugs now are skyrocketing in price )
Thats the future under all the candidates beside Sanders and Jill Stein. Its worse far worse than people here think with them.