I guess Obama wants me to work harder :)

[Savannahmann]

185. My point stands

We don't rush to the KFF site to challenge those who say they got covered under the ACA. We only rush there in an effort to discredit those who are not covered like we would wish.

Single Payer is a pipe dream, we will be lucky if we are able to salvage the ACA and keep the Republicans from gutting it. Right now, they stand a very good chance of doing that if they can win in 2014, and our battle plan to hold the Senate, and take the House seems to be praying that the Republicans are dumb enough to self destruct.

Single Payer may be a very good answer to what this nation needs, but an equally probable solution that the people will throw their support, and votes behind is further deregulation. Does anyone not understand the importance of the ACA. For it to be a stepping stone to Single Payer it has to succeed. Then we have to show that the care would improve and costs would go down under Single Payer, but pointing to a failure and then asking politicians to risk what little political capital they have left with the electorate to get behind single payer is insane. We wouldn't win dog catcher in the local elections in most of the nation with that plan.

Single Payer is not a solution at this time, it really isn't. What we need to do now is figure out where the problems are with what we have, and what if any solutions to those problems we can implement. Arguing that the problems, many predicted, with the ACA are proof we need to go to single payer is electoral suicide.