Am I the only one who wants Single Payer?

[DissidentVoice]

103. I firmly, firmly support it...but too many Democrats don't.

However, I think many here on DU see the ACA as a panacea that it is not...and some see it as a "stepping-stone" to single-payer.

I do not.

To me, either President Obama was incredibly naive or incredibly cynical to believe that he could actually get any Republicans to support him in any health care reform. They said from Day One that their "job" was to "make him a one-term President." Don't kid yourselves. The ACA is very, very close to what Republicans (i.e., Bob Dole) were proposing in the 1990s during the Clinton roll-over-and-play-dead health care fiasco.

Perhaps it is better than the status quo, but a crippling, maybe fatal, flaw is that it leaves Big Insurance in charge, with all the confusion about deductibles, co-pays, what is/isn't covered and all the rest of the bullshit that has made the U.S. non-system among the most unjust in the world. Single-payer does not have that.

Another thing I am sick to death (pun intended) of hearing, even on DU, is that "the political will wasn't there" for single-payer. How do you know? Did anyone TRY? Or was it just assumed that the Blue Dogs would go with the Republicans (where they belong anyway) and say "no?" Or have even too many on DU been infected with DLC dogma?

I think the problem is one that has infiltrated the Democratic Party at least since Mike Dukakis got clobbered by Lee Atwater's smear machine:

SPINELESSNESS.

Democrats today are too afraid of Rush Limbaugh, Fux Noise, et. al. tarring-and-feathering them as "socialists," "communists," etc. to a willing listenership that would never support a Democrat anyway!

I am very, very tired of the party I have supported most of my life going increasingly, shamelessly "GOP-lite."

I want to see the Democrats stand up and say "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!"