2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: With his fantasy health-care proposal, the Bernie movement becomes closer to a left-wing tea party. [View all]enid602
(8,616 posts)" There's nothing fantastic about a program that every other developed nation has." Every other developed nation does NOT have single payer. They have UNIVERSAL Health Care. Thanks to Obamacare, the US has universal healthcare for the first time as of 2014, per the WHO. Among larger countries, only Japan and the UK have single payer. Most (France, Germany and Belgium to name just a few), have Insurance Mandated universal healthcare, similar to Obamacare. Better to concentrate on putting more teeth into a system that already has the POTENTIAL of approaching something like Germany's or France's.
Another problem of initiating single payer right now is DEMOGRAPHICS. The fastest growing segment of the US population is the elderly, who while needing the most medical care, will not be contributing much in terms of revenue. Bad timing. Bad timing also with regard to politics, as the Republicans will most likely retain control of the House until 2022.
Does Bernie really want this election to be a referendum on Berniecare?