Please explain why this is a deal-breaker for you?Universal healthcare is literally the only thing that would make me consider switching sides from Democrat to Republican.
Please explain why this is a deal-breaker for you?Universal healthcare is literally the only thing that would make me consider switching sides from Democrat to Republican.
Wait--- I feel like your post is missing some info. Are you saying you'd switch camps if Dems pushed for Single Payer? Or you'd switch if the GOP supports it??Universal healthcare is literally the only thing that would make me consider switching sides from Democrat to Republican.
Health Care is 1/6th of the modern economy, and trying to tear down private infrastructure and establish public infrastructure all at once would be devastating to it.
Please explain why this is a deal-breaker for you?
If Obama had nuked the fillibuster it would have been a very different bill that eventually passed.
The uninsured rate was about halved ( https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-obamacare/ ) and the big issues standing in the way of UHC are two things:
a) the reliance on state medicaid expansion as a delivery mechanism, allowing states to fuck over their own populations
b) the unpopularity of a mandate requiring everyone to buy in (alongside with not having all 50 states on board the expansion to avoid screwing people caught in the middle)
Excuses excuses.
fuck yeah let's do this
run on this and you'll actually win in 2018, dems
FROM_ARTICLE said:a centrist, incrementalist approach to Democratic politics is not the answer as the party seeks to rebuild.
Taking this from another I've of my posts. More appropriate here. I would love a NHS system, but we need to transition to it very slowly, 18% of GDP is not something is place price controls on overnight. It's a generational transition.
Unfortunately much of the drivers of costs in the health Care system are the reasons Republicans list (at least 2 presidents ago). Doctors do make too much money, pharma does charge too much, malpractice does award too much, insurance should go across state lines.
But Democrats do not like going after costs, especially in those groups. See Obamacare's failures.
But healthcare does need to be regulated at the federal level and it should not be linked to employment (remove the damn tax break), insurance needs to be hugely simplified through that regulation and wealth should be redistributed to help the poor.
But sane republicans do not like expanding the federal government, which is required in a health Care marketplace where people can traverse state lines.
Now the insane turd monkeys we have now, all populist gas but stock in neutral (thank God), solution is to lunch poor brown people.
The easiest transition for the country would be the Dutch system. Everyone had to buy a single plan (gold equivalent) from a choice of insurance companies. You can buy whatever supplemental you want after that.
Yeah not really, state regs and authority needs to be dropped and a single regulation or on place. After reading that article it is not nearly as simple as you alluded to, requiring regulations that were never written in to coexist with individual state regulations. State regs should disappear.You can already sell insurance across state lines. It's an Obamacare provision, insurance companies just choose not to do it because it's more cost effective to specialize in a specific market/state.
http://jamiedupree.blog.palmbeachpo...tate-lines-its-already-legal-under-obamacare/