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In reply to the discussion: Medical Doctors for Single Payer Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Individual Insurance Mandate [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)Please support this opinion, because it is illogical to me.
Codifying and Legitimizing the For Profit Corporations as the gateway to health care in the US only strengthens these establishments.
Channeling BILLIONS every year into their pockets,
and forcing EVERY American, by LAW, with penalties collected by the IRS,
to BUY junk insurance from these Corporations without creating a Public Option is NOT a step toward Single Payer.
It IS a step in the other direction.
There will be NO "Fixing it Later".
We WILL live with this nightmare for a long time.
Common Sense dictates that this "Historic Health Care Reform" has actually postponed Single Payer
as neither Republicans nor Democrats will wish to revisit this fight again.
Instead, the Democrats will rock back and proclaim MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!,
as they are doing now.
Please tell me where and when you see the mechanism become available to move toward Single Payer,
unless you believe that The MANDATE in 2014 will finally force enough outraged Americans into the streets
to actually demand and receive Single Payer from our government.
To save you some time,
if you point to the movement in some states like the one that recently FAILED in California, to implement their own Single Payer System,
these programs will NOT be able to offer much advantage over the private plans that are already available.
In order to achieve any acceptable improvement,
the risk pool must be expanded to the entire country.
Individual states will not be able to have a large enough risk pool,
and the waste from redundant, duplicated administrative bureaucracy X50 for each state will absorb most of the overhead savings that could be achieved with ONE National Insurance Pool.
Opportunities like the one we had in 2008 come only once a generation,
and THIS one was wasted.
Please tell me what magical alignment you see that will allow Americans to take another step toward a National health Insurance program. To take this step, we would FIRST have to undo Obamacare,
because it etablished NOTHING that can be built upon.
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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