2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dem Platform Committee votes *Against* Single-Payer Healthcare 7-6 [View all]BlueCheese
(2,522 posts)Single payer is only one of them. In fact, I think most countries that have universal health care don't have single payer.
Right now, 90% of Americans are covered by health insurance. Polls show that a majority of them actually like their insurance, whether it's employer-provided, Tricare, Medicare, Medicaid, or something else. So which makes more sense of the following two?
1) Expand coverage to the 10% of Americans who are currently uninsured, and improve the coverage of those who are underinsured, through things like a public option to the ACA.
2) Tell the 90% of Americans who already have insurance and the 100+ million people who like their plans that their health insurance is switching to something completely new and unknown.
Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party believe health care is a right. Just because the party doesn't affirmatively endorse one possible way of achieving this isn't necessarily a bad thing.