The solution to Medicare as a driver of the Deficit

[CTyankee]

4. western european democracies got their single payer universal heatlh care right

after WW2. Drastic times. We have insurance companies that tell our government what to do, so as long as their power is supreme we dance to their tune. It was never meant to be this way, but that is the way it is now. I hope to hell this changes but most americans don't understand what is happening, and indeed believe the rhetoric that single payer is somehow a communist plot. As long as that mentality and level of ignorance continues, the longer it is till we get a sane health care policy.

You are obviously right when you say that the ACA was passed to forestall single payer. It was pretty clear to me that the insurance companies told Obama what his limits were in any kind of universal coverage and we got the best we could expect...