Stunning polls show Sanders soaring while 'TrumpCare' crashes

[PatrickforO]

260. Why on earth are we arguing about the SAME THING?

Without vision the people perish. We have great leaders, LIKE BERNIE, and yes, Waters, Reich and others who are setting the vision, and then grass roots people like US, because I assure you you're not the only one with an open telephone line to your US Senators and Representative, or who is active at the policy level in local politics. There are many times many of us. I've never seen the grass roots so engaged. Not in my voting lifetime.

As to single payer, and doing it right??? C'mon. The infrastructure is IN PLACE right now. It's called Medicare, and can be expanded over, say 5 years to encompass all Americans.

As I said, you are looking at a guy who pays over $14K per year for shitty, rationed healthcare with financially crippling copays. When you go to the doctor or the hospital, they wheel you through the finance department first to make sure you can pay. We still have lots of bankruptcies with healthcare debt, and millions uninsured.

Now, the Republican 'die fast' plan has been tabled, but we still have a need to control the costs of healthcare, and that is because healthcare is a PUBLIC GOOD, a basic right, which should be PUBLICLY FUNDED. The profit motive is in direct conflict with the provision of the services we need, and big pharma has our Reps and Sens in its pocket - they charge more for life-saving drugs here than in ANY OTHER COUNTRY. Because they can. And yes, that is morally wrong.

So yeah, let's do it right and expand Medicare.