Reply #16: the system they are trying to put in place is not fleshed out yet.

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and in the real world single payer is not on the table. I wish it were. I love Bernie for pushing- though he knows that it's not on the table and he's pushing it more to ensure a viable public option (yes, I know that. Went to dinner and a meeting with Bernie last week at the local h.s. No, we aren't especially low on the life expectancy rates. U>S. life expectancy is 78.06 compared to the EU rate of 78.7. Yes, countries such as Andorra have much higher life expectancy rates, but it's rather silly to compare a country of 300,000,000 with one of 89,0000. As for infant mortality rates, we certainly should do better.

As for people profiting off of people's health, that hardly is singular to the U.S. Doctors profit off of people's health and ill health. Private insurance companies still exist in countries with single payer. You can never strip profit completely from healthcare.