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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Is Losing Primary Battles, But Winning A War [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)We all do. The thing is that this is the real, imperfect world, where there's never one perfect answer but only choices among various tradeoffs. The few nations that have the most pure socialized nonprofit systems are not those believed to provide the best universal healthcare to their people.
Most nations with universal healthcare use various combinations of systems to provide it. It's likely that we will develop a hybrid system or systems to meet our needs. As it is, we of course already use and have experience of various types of systems, like the VA, true nonprofit, Medicare, CHIPS, etc.
On the plus side for us, we're not exactly leading on this. Other nations have been using a whole slew of systems in different combinations for decades, and we can study what's working and why and figure out what'll work best in our very large, diverse nation.
In any case, I believe that Harris is far too smart to commit to one particular system alone and toss all other possibilities out, but that she does support incorporating that general approach into whatever system we eventually adopt.
I don't know if this is the thread where I said it before, but the ACA, though not in itself the end we all want, is working and would be working well if our election hadn't been hijacked. The most realistic and politically and economically achievable, least disruptive, and most dependable way forward could involve holding carefully to what we already have and evolving forward from that. The goal always being affordable universal care, of course.