What Does the Democratic Party Actually Believe?

[JayhawkSD]

61. Did I say anything about "single payer?"

Did I claim we were promised single payer. Show me where I said that. Why attack someone for something he did not say? That's called a "cheap shot."

What I said was that what we were promised was reform, and what we got was an expansion of the existing system in which everyone purchases health insurance from for-profit insurance companies. That is not reform because it does not in any substantive way change the existing system.

The only way in which recipients are helped by the health insurance expansion is that a small amount of regulation is added to extend it to more people (about 50 million out of the 315 million population, or 15%), and the government will pay part of the cost. That's not a bad thing, but it's not the reform we were promised.

Reform: "make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it."

So insurance companies still make a guaranteed 25% markup on a larger volume of business, and the public still pays that markup along with higher and higher prices charged by providers.