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In reply to the discussion: What Form Should US Healthcare Take? [View all]mvd
(65,173 posts)10. I really don't even think it was the best
Surely Lieberman and others could have been pressured by the President when we had majorities. Plus Obama should have started with Single Payer and worked from there. Public Option should have been made more of a priority.
The ACA was at least better than what we had though. I don't like how it entrenched the insurance companies and that should be fixed.
Medicare buy in would be a close second for me. But I prefer the taxation of the NHS plan.
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Not necessarily. The ACA included funding to help states set up their own single-payer
pnwmom
Dec 2014
#47
He wasn't negotiating with the GOP and he knew it. He was negotiating with Lieberman and Baucus
Recursion
Dec 2014
#15
No, you're missing the huge difference. NHS means doctors work for the government.
Recursion
Dec 2014
#14
NHS isn't single payer. You can be NHS or you can be single payer. Medicare-for-all is single payer
Recursion
Dec 2014
#13
Interestingly, in Canada it's illegal to bill for any covered treatment privately
Recursion
Dec 2014
#30
And if we went to something like NHS, we'd have to figure out how to fund that, too.
pnwmom
Dec 2014
#62
And Medicare still uses private insurance companies to do the actual insuring
Recursion
Dec 2014
#22
I chose other because I know what the HS system is in Europe, and I'd LOVE to have theirs.
napi21
Dec 2014
#34
Well, first off, I don't agree that insurance companies are "in charge of everything here"
Recursion
Dec 2014
#71
NO SIR. There was NO CHARGE! He asked about what he owed, and they said nothing.
napi21
Dec 2014
#72
Fully socialist. Public health, public education, would be federally funded by income taxes.
hunter
Dec 2014
#45