Bernie Sanders talks universal Medicare, and 1.1 million people click to watch him

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137. A lot of Democrats are not persuaded that single payer is a good idea.

We need to advocate and persuade people who care about healthcare.

I was shocked at Hillary Clinton's negativity on the topic during the campaign. I follow this issue more closely than I follow a lot of other issues, and her attitude on this was that it will never happen.

Oregon is coming close. California is talking about it. I think that Vermont will eventually come around if those of us who have seen single payer work (most of the developed world) just keep talking about it in a positive way.

The fact is that the for-profit insurance companies keep raising their prices way beyond what patients can afford and are willing to pay. And so, this is a win-win issue for advocates of single payer. Either for-profit companies reduce their expenses by reducing top executive pay and profits or Americans of both parties will clamor for single payer.

I plan to keep writing and arguing in favor of single-payer.

America is a country with many, many impoverished citizens who can only afford subsidized healthcare in a for-profit system and who would automatically have it in a single-payer system. When we start tracking the deaths from lack of healthcare (or the early deaths from lack of healthcare), when we become aware of our high infant mortality rate and our low life expectancy compared to countries with single payer, and when we begin to mourn those early deaths from lack of healthcare the way we mourn and notice those due to gun violence or auto accidents, it won't be a matter of party politics. Single payer healthcare will be our reality. And then we work together to make it work very well.