Here's why creating single-payer health care in America is so hard

[SoCalDem]

12. We will need a filibister proof majority in the senate and

enough strong dems in the house to finally tell the insurance companies it'd time to get off the gravy train....and then shove them off the train..

We will have to enact laws that PROHIBIT companies from providing sweetheart coverage to their upper crusties..

Companies that once provided coverage will have to PAY THE EMPLOYEES WHAT THEY (employers) once paid ...in the form of wages (that should have been regular raises all along)..

Now that employees are making more money in their pockets, THEY will have to start ponying up more than they used to in the form of FICA.... They will still be ahead, because EVERYONE will be paying in based on their income..(the new limit should be $ 1 million).. They will no longer be paying for "employee share" on a policy that may or may not actually do much for them..

Employers will win because they will no longer have to do all that pesky paperwork, and their out of pocket will never increase..

Employees will win because they no longer have to stay in a job they hate because they like the insurance...they will be paid for the job they do, and any raise will not be immediately offset by an increase in insurance premiums.

Insurance will still have a function..they can sell policies to cover the "fancy stuff"..boob jobs..nose jobs..tummy tucks..and of course IF rich folks want concierge doctors or private clinics, insurance enter that market too..

They have ridden the gravy train right off the rails and there will be pain.. but we need healthCARE..not health care INSURANCE..