Am I the only one who wants Single Payer?

[freshwest]

36. I AM. We have to get the Nordquist/Koch types out of Congress.

Countries fund their UHC through a system of high, progressive taxes. We've strayed too far from that model in the USA, aided and abetted by rightist media moguls. It is paid by an enlightened electorate, instead of the benighted voting bloc we have that opposes all taxation.

It can be put on the ballot in states as VT has done, and was tried out here, but it didn't make the ballot. In every state that progressive initiatives are put forth, they face Koch funded opposition.

UHC requires a national decision to be universal (national). The NID (National Initiative for Democracy) failed:

http://www.mikegravel.us/national_initiative

Note the spamming of the website by regressives in the comments. I don't know if there is anything using that concept of direct democracy now nationally.

Except for a Constitutional amendment, it won't work. That would require the approval of many states and many are controlled by regressives. These are the obstacles to UHC. I'm not saying give up, but it will require a lot of civic education to get it passed.

Do you know of another mechanism to allow us to vote on it nationally, other than a bill through the HoR and the Senate?

There was a bill promoted by Kucinich and Conyers:

KUCINICH: SINGLE-PAYER UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PLAN

"When people tell me that national health insurance is the right answer but is not politically feasible, I tell them that the opposite is true," Kucinich wrote in a statement on healthcare-now.org. "Passage is inevitable - it is only a matter of time."

Kucinich is also for the second year now a co-sponsor of HR 676 in Congress, a bill sponsored by US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), to enact single-payer universal health care nationwide. The bill number is the same in the 110th Session as it was in the 109th.

The bill had 79 total cosponsors but failed to get out of Committee in the 109th Session, with new cosponsors joining on each month. Georgia’s US Reps. Sanford Bishop (D-GA) [a centrist], John Lewis (D-GA), and Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) were all co-sponsors...

Much more about that bill at the link:

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0134.html

Perhaps it can be revived or revised to see the true will of the people?