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In reply to the discussion: Are some on DU hoping Single Payer Health care fails? [View all]genxlib
(5,524 posts)There is some advantage to putting forth a "Wouldn't it be nice ..." kind of idea that might fall on sympathetic ears in the aftermath of the GOP Health Care debacle.
However, there is some substantial hazard in pushing for a specific policy proposal. The amount of blowback is going to shock some people around here. The entire tea party was generated around the resistance to a re-engineering of just the individual market-place for insurance. And we needed all branches of government to make it happen. What do you think is going to happen when the entire insurance system (including employer based) is proposed to be scrapped?
Meanwhile, we have zero branches of Government so we have absolutely no power to actually implement such a policy.
There seems to be this attitude that the public will cheer Democrats for offering this. I think they have short memories as to how brutally we were beaten down by the opposition after pushing through the ACA. It has nothing to do with the reality of whether the ACA was a policy improvement. The GOP simply won the war of public opinion through propaganda and manufactured outrage. That will all look like childs-play when it comes to fighting back against a Single Payer.
That is just my opinion. Offering single payer now is an unforced error that will rally the right against us with absolutely no chance of success.