2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie will win because most Americans worry far more about health care costs than they worry about socialism [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)where everyone's taxes aren't going up eleven percent or more. VT failed because they couldn't make it "affordable." If you think everyone to the left of the center line is going to leap through their own butt holes at the prospect of paying an extra eleven percent or more of their salaries in taxes to fund this, I have a bridge for sale.
I'd like to see this happen, even though I don't need it, thanks to a military career. I know it will help people and be a boon to our nation in other ways. But wishing and hoping ain't going to cut it. Vermont was supposed to be the Great Northern Hope that would show us the way--and they couldn't make it work; they admitted defeat.
So--where do we go from here? Do we keep talking about it, crabbing, pointlessly, aimlessly? Do we try to tighten up/cheapen down the ACA? What?
Because single payer ain't happening any time soon--not until we see a successful demonstration project. And our best hope for one just crapped out.