Freeing slaves, permitting women to vote, allowing same-sex marriage---all were things that

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21. So why hasn't it been done? It was first brought up in 1971.

Democrats told Ted Kennedy to tell Nixon in 1971, "Single Payer or nothing" and we got nothing.

And Nixon was proposing a plan that was to the left of the ACA.

Kennedy said this was one of the biggest regrets of his political career, because we might be much, much closer to UHC than we are now.

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

That said, single payer used by only a few countries that have Universal Health Care.

Why do the vast majority of countries use a hybrid system of payers with public/private partnerships to achieve universal health care and not single payer?

Why do you think it took Canada over 10 years to get a UHC, and why do you think that it's not run at a federal level, but primarily at a province by province level, if a federally run single payer plan is so easily done?

And if the SCOTUS of 2010 ruled that states did not have to participate in medicare expansion under the ACA, what makes you think that the SCOTUS of 2021 won't do the same with medcaid expansion to all the states, even if it could get passed into law?

I say this as someone who had great medical coverage when I lived in the UK. But I understand they didn't get to where they are in two years, as is promised by Sanders...and they didn't have a population that politicized it like ours does.

If you have realistic quick solutions, I'd love to hear them. But I don't see any. A restoration and expansion of the ACA is the most likely way to get everyone covered, as per experts. Our nation can't wait around for another 40 years of "single payer or nothing."