The Progressive Revolution Is Being Led by a Black Woman

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192. You mean "institutionalized" in the way that right wingers mean abortion

is "state sanctioned murder." I've been required to purchase car insurance as long as I've been driving. Same with homeowners's insurance when I bought a house. I don't recall outrage about that in all those years.

As you have shown, other countries (in fact most) that have universal health care coverage do not do it via single payer, or using government only payers, nor did they have to replace another system to do it.

To say that the only way the U.S. can acheive it is via single payer ignores how and how long it took other countries got to the systems they have, the expectations of U.S. citizens for health care delivery, the differences in size of populations, the anti-government political climate here, the diverse nature of the U.S. populations, and math.

But, again, it's easy to promise the moon if you can blame someone else for not delivering it, and there are plenty of people who will believe them.




I want universal health care coverage - and nearly all other countries do it without delivering the moon that is MFA, as interpreted by Sanders. Holding out for the moon that will never materialize in our lifetime, let alone in four years, just means that more people die.

Then again, my goal is actually getting to universal health care. How we get there, or which politician claims it as a brand is not a holy war for me.

People are holy. Talk is just talk, no matter how many decades someone has been talking.