Reply #33: the single payer movement has been in existence for 30 years. [View All]

[nightrain]

Single payer is proven to work. Whereas, this multi-payer, fragmented, paperwork-heavy way we have of financing and delivering healthcare is a monstrosity to work with and in.

A real "public option" would have been an improvement, but what is coming out of Congress is a huge give-away to the healthcare corporations and drug makers. It will only increase the bloated, top-heavy, cumbersome dysfunctional "system", and enrich the already wealthy execs. The MA program is broken already, and doesn't deserve to go nation-wide.

Are you a practitioner who has to deal with this fragmented and broken system? Perhaps others have some useful information and perspective that you have not considered. You make some very broad assumptions in your last paragraph. We don't know what the next two decades hold, we don't have to act out of desperation and grasp at a failed reform.