Single Payer: I had a visit with my Doctor today.

[Ferd Berfel]

HE said that he and the other doctors he knows all support SINGLE PAYER!
HE said that they are sick of dealing with Insurance Companies.

My doctor and his buddies support Single Payer. Why Doesn't Hillary?

[tazkcmo]

1. She waited for the revolution.

It never came. In contrast to waiting, Sen. Sanders is leading the revolution.

[truedelphi]

2. BERNIE! BERNIE! n/t

[pnwmom]

3. Bernie's own state of Vermont couldn't figure out a way to pass single payer,

even with the available funds from the ACA that allowed for the state to substitute single payer for the exchanges.

If even Vermont couldn't get it through their liberal legislature, how do you think we could pass it on a national basis?

[brooklynite]

4. It's not that she doesn't support it...it's that she's smart enough to know that...

...right NOW, when the Democrats are still being beaten up about "Obamacare" there is no window for consideration of Single Payer.

[rurallib]

6. makes no difference what democrats do on health care

they will get beat up by corporate media and anyone with "R" behind their name.
Time to get a spine and lead on what is right.

[Pharaoh]

14. ^^this^^

[Ferd Berfel]

20. Zackly. There are enough Americans that support it.....so stop trianglulating and be a DAMNED LEADER

If you worry about whether Republicans like you or not NOTHING GOOD WILL HAPPEN


http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/Chart_of_Americans_Support

[CharlotteVale]

5. A close friend of mine is a doctor who supports single payer.

I worked for her for awhile and she spent huge amounts of time fighting with insurance companies on behalf of her patients.

[Cassiopeia]

7. She was for it before the insurance companies

told her to be against it.

Hillary's motivations are really easy to figure out.

[gordyfl]

10. That is...

really good.

[Hiraeth]

8. As a general rule, I have found doctors to be far more liberal than pharmicists.

Wonder why that is.

[stupidicus]

9. yep, she opposes it in principle and practice

because she's a 3rdway corporatist and wants to keep the "market" in it

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/hillary-clinton-likes-oba_b_4881399.html

[MeNMyVolt]

11. Because it won't make it through congress.

And, because a good chunk of people don't support it. What have you done to change that, besides posting on an internet forum?

[rladdi]

12. Politicians have no idea how insurance works that is why health care in the USA is so screwed up.

Politicians make laws all the time with no background or knowledge of the subject they are dealing with. Most are in office to live off the tax payers for the rest of their lives. they get good pay for doing NOTHING and great benefits.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. I don't call it, "Single Payer"....

I call it, "Medicare For All".

Just eliminate the age requirement.

Done.

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. That would work.

[jeff47]

17. Still could use some tweaks

For example, add an out-of-pocket cap for part B and rework part D.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. Those "part B" things were partial privatization....

Other countries don't scam and con on healthcare.

We turned healthcare into a multi-trillion dollar industry that drains the rest of the economy and then we claim it would be a multi-trillion dollar blow to the economy to eliminate it.

[jeff47]

16. Half of my doctor's staff is involved in billing.

He'd far prefer not to have to employ so many people just to wade through all the different insurance companies, and plans within those companies.

[Doctor_J]

19. she and the president work for the insurance companies, not the people

That's why