This is the kind of thing that will destroy our efforts to regain control
Single Payer or Bust? Nina Turner and her mouth
News arrived last week that Our Revolution, the political group that arose from Bernie Sanderss presidential campaign, is going to back primary challenges against Democrats who arent deemed ardent enough in their support for single-payer health care. Were not going to accept no more hemming and hawing, said the groups president, Nina Turner. Make your stand.
This makes for a potentially fateful moment in the history of the Democratic Party, and in the history of our ever more polarized politics. Its also, as alluring as such uncompromising passion can sound, very substantively misleading.
If youre a normal person who doesnt have much time to burrow into the details of policy, you can be forgiven for thinking that the health care choice we face in this country is between the current improving but still inefficient and dissatisfying status quo and a single-payer system. After all, single payer, in which the federal government acts as every Americans insurance provider, is the only alternative that ever gets discussed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/opinion/single-payer-or-bust.html