Single Payer is good for union workers. Obviously.

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48. People with really good healthcare will have worse healthcare under MFA. There's no way around that.

MFA doesn't magically create doctors and nurses. It means the people who aren't getting care right now are going to be able to go to the doctors and nurses that people with good insurance see without a wait.

I still think it's a good idea to find a way for people who aren't getting care right now to have it, I just don't see the point of lying about what it will mean for people who currently have good private insurance: they will get a lower standard of care because the resources here are finite. There are hundreds and hundreds of counties with not enough doctors and any system we make is going to have to move some doctors to those counties. There's literally not a way around this. Practices will consolidate and hospitals will have to close and the fact that a doctor is seeing someone who used to be uninsured means that's 15 minutes she can't be seeing anybody else, and again the number of doctors is finite.

The fact that MFA advocates can't even be honest about this extremely simple fact that every country that has achieved universal healthcare acknowledges makes me think people aren't actually serious about this. People act dumbfounded that the majority of the population who have private insurance want to keep it, but they do, by a very large margin. It's political suicide to just put your hands over your ears and pretend that isn't the case.