2016 Postmortem

Orsino

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27. We have multiple single-payer systems here, too.

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 12:27 PM

Jul 2016

What we have learned is that private insurance alone is untenable. To cover more people, we must move toward single-payer models. It's immatetial to me, though, just exactly what universal coverage would look like. If the rich want to keep a few doctors on retainer, fine...but as with school systems, they need to be taxed to support the systems that will keep the rest of us healthy.

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Democrats Unite, But What Happened To ‘Medicare For All’? [View all] ehrnst Jul 2016 OP

Bull puckies. If you poll people about Medicare for All, most of them want it. merrily Jul 2016 #1

Did you read the part about the consequences of implementation? ehrnst Jul 2016 #4

How did implementation of Medicare go? People have plenty of experience with Medicare, merrily Jul 2016 #5

The implementation of Medicare wasn't for the whole population. ehrnst Jul 2016 #11

Regardless, the implementation went fine and it's in place now. That wheel does not have to be merrily Jul 2016 #12

Regardless? Hardly. ehrnst Jul 2016 #14

And this part? ehrnst Jul 2016 #17

Quoting from my Reply 12: merrily Jul 2016 #20

"If people want to do this, it will be done and done well." ehrnst Jul 2016 #23

Poster, please. What in hell does what most people want have to do with what gets through Congress? merrily Jul 2016 #25

The public option was the part of the ACA that resembled most Medicare for All. ehrnst Jul 2016 #26

One way creon Jul 2016 #2

The shorter path... Chan790 Jul 2016 #6

That method creon Jul 2016 #30

Incrementally, perhaps. And expand children's health care coverage. ehrnst Jul 2016 #9

That creon Jul 2016 #29

Is that what they're going with now...that it's "impossible"? NorthCarolina Jul 2016 #3

Did you read the article? ehrnst Jul 2016 #7

A two thousand page bill for Obamacare--no problemo. merrily Jul 2016 #8

Did you read the article? Medicare for All will take much more than 2000 pages ehrnst Jul 2016 #10

See Replies 5 and 12. Thanks. merrily Jul 2016 #13

See my responses to them. Thanks. ehrnst Jul 2016 #15

No. Arguing is pointless. We're not going to agree, even a little. merrily Jul 2016 #16

You don't agree with the majority of health policy analysts ehrnst Jul 2016 #19

Actually, I don't agree with the negative parts of your article to which you cling. merrily Jul 2016 #21

Which is the opinion of the majority of health care policy analysts ehrnst Jul 2016 #24

Doesn't matter. They should at least be happy that the Hortensis Jul 2016 #31

Yes. We need to be moving toward single-payer models... Orsino Jul 2016 #18

Socialist countries in Europe have universal coverage without single payer. ehrnst Jul 2016 #22

We have multiple single-payer systems here, too. Orsino Jul 2016 #27

If there is a public option and one for people over 55 that takes the heat off Healthcare, applegrove Jul 2016 #28