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In reply to the discussion: The Urban Institute's Attack On Single Payer: Ridiculous Assumptions Yield Ridiculous Estimates [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Yeah... what happened to that public option?
Regardless, now here we are, with a number of good Democrats in the Senate- Warren, Booker, Harris, Gillibrand, Franken etc.- endorsing a principle which other good Democrats in the house- with John Conyers at the helm- have been advocating for years as well.
Obama accomplished great things with the ACA, however, I think it is a failure of both vision and imagination to think that that is the full extent of progressive change we can ever expect to see in our lifetimes. And we all know there are still gaps. There are poor people who pay too much for not enough coverage, for instance.
What Single Payer or a similar proposal would look like, how we would get there, etc are all necessary parts of the discussion- but the important thing is that we are bringing it into the national conversation.