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Showing Original Post only (View all)Speaking of single payer, if any one believes that it is impossible or unrealistic [View all]
to think that it can be implemented in the US, you are not really making an evaluation of the issue, you are demonstrating that you are convinced that it is so.
At one point, people knew that man would never fly.
At one point, people knew that slaves would never be free.
At one point, people knew that women would never vote.
Until it happened. And then what would never happen became reality.
I could continue, but what we are really arguing about is if we have the political will to demand single payer. Single payer works better than the US system, ranked 37th by the way, of corporatized and profit centered medicine. That is a fact. So there is no need to invent anything to get to single payer.
Funding issues can be worked out, and have been worked out in many other countries, but only if there is the political will to do so.
What is covered can be worked out, but only if there is the political will to do so.