Imagine Single-Payer Healthcare and what the reaction would be.

[MineralMan]

15. I think you're right. I'd also add much of the healthcare provider industry and

the pharmaceutical industry to the list of those who have the most to lose. I have no answer for that. Change to a single-payer system is going to have to come from the grassroots, and we're still living in a country that is deeply divided on such issues. We have to change the minds of those who oppose single-payer somehow.

I still think a Medicare expansion is the answer. It could even be staged incrementally, I believe. Once people experience the Medicare system, they begin to understand. We could even use the current method of supplemental insurance with the expansion, which the insurance companies would like. They sure try hard to get people to pay that $100 to cover the 20% Medicare Part B doesn't pay. I've long been puzzled by that, but there it is. They spend enormous amounts of money to get those premiums and competition for that market is intense.