2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you buy into the single payer fantasy of Sanders? [View all]Hoyt
(54,770 posts)what it takes to get there.
I use "probably" because there are a lot of people in this country who want choice, I believe it will be easier to add a public option to the ACA (while increasing subsidies and reducing out-of-pocket costs) and let people make the choice themselves, I question whether the majority of people are ready to accept the things that will have to be done to control cost and utilization like in other countries, and more.
Then there is the question of the real cost of his plan -- How he goes from $3 Trillion a year to $1.38 Trillion really is a fantasy. To that you have to consider the cost of all the other things he wants to do -- Social Security, education, etc. All these things are laudable, but he's trying to buy votes with promises that he simply can't deliver.