Can Obamacare Be Changed To Make It a Single-Payer Health Plan?

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18. You build it on Obamacare in the blue states.

The good part of "Obamacare" is it moves the battle for single-payer to the states. And that's a much more favorable ground to have the battle.

States can become single-payer or offer public options starting in 2018. Vermont is already going single-payer. We may be able to get full single-payer in some additional blue states.

In other blue states, public options should be a relatively easy sale. Sell them to the legislature as a 'check' against private insurance profiteering. With no need to profit, public option plans should end up cheaper, which will cause people to sign up. When those people don't die, the FUD against "government healthcare" is reduced, causing more people to sign up. Which makes those plans even cheaper, which causes more people to sign up.

As a result, those public options become de-facto single payer.

With blue states humming along nicely in single-payer systems, it becomes easier to sell such plans to purple states. Several of them will follow the same path.

With both blue and a few purple states humming along nicely in single-payer systems, we can return to the national battle in a much stronger position. And have a Congress where single-payer could actually pass.