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In reply to the discussion: Should Democrats who decline to support Medicare for All be primaried? [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Non-starter for many people.
And the failure of Vermont single payer should be studied, because Bernie sure isn't willing to talk about what lessons were learned there.
Again... the goal should be universal health care coverage. Single payer is to universal coverage as poodle is to canine.
Medicare isn't single payer. Most of the developed world achieves universal coverage through multiple payers.
Holding out for a poodle could take years.
Making "single payer or bust" into needless dogma is really no different than the right's "getting rid of Planned Parenthood will get rid of abortions" dogma - neither takes into account the actual data, and what unbiased experts in the area of health care policy have to say.
But it certainly makes those who believe it feel like they are the only ethical ones, and everyone else is corrupt.