Urban Institute analysis of Sanders Single Payer Plan: May 2016

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95. We are jumping on board based on the principle of achieving universal health care

It's a matter of whether universal health care/single payer is a worthy goal. The details matter (see my discussion above), but first the goal needs to be set.

It's like President Kennedy declaring that within a decade the USA would land a man on the moon. He didn't know the details and neither did NASA when they started, but in less than 10 years the goal was realized.

Btw, the idea that opponents of universal healthcare are "corrupt" is counterproductive and silly, just like calling the critics of the possibility of humans flying in airplanes "corrupt." Opponents of universal healthcare may not believe in it by principle (healthcare as a privilege) or because they believe the government is incapable of such a large undertaking or they believe the current system is too complicated to ever make a transition to something better. But, for those of us who do believe in the healthcare as a Right, there is evidence that the government is more than capable (see reaching the moon as an example), and that the task is simpler than reaching the moon from a complexity viewpoint as well.