Single Payer is good for union workers. Obviously.

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58. And the transition period doesn't change anything

My GP is in one of those joint practices of 6 doctors in Arlington County, VA. But there are a whole lot of doctors in Arlington County, VA: nearly 60 per 100K people. Meanwhile in the county I grew up in, Clay County, MS, there's 20 per 100K people (and it's much worse in even more rural parts of the state).

One way or another, we need to move some amount of doctors from places like Arlington County to places like Clay County. This is the difficult thing any universal healthcare program has to do. The hard part isn't the money -- we can find that, one way or the other -- it's the fact that we don't have enough GPs per capita (and too many specialists) and that they aren't located in the places where people need care.

As a political complication, the people with good insurance in places like Arlington County don't want their superabundance of doctors to go away, and they aren't fooled when we lie about it. They know that has to happen in any universal coverage plan, because they can count.