Single-Payer National Health Insurance

[dreamnightwind]

4. So how do we get it?

It absolutely needs to happen.

I hear the argument from some on this site that Obamacare is a step towards single payer, but in my opinion it's precisely the opposite, a bail-out for the private corporations that were so ravenous they were going to profit their way to extinction, so we gave them a guaranteed, expanded customer base.

I know there's some mechanism to allow states to petition to obtain a waiver so that they can pursue a single-payer program, or at least that's my understanding. Is it legitimate? Will waivers actually be granted so a state, such as Vermont, can pioneer this?

Thanks for the OP, we should be posting OP's about this every single day until we get it.