Why Isn't Bernie Jumping On This? To ask for a debate on Healthcare?

[99th_Monkey]

5. "a single, streamlined, tax-financed nonprofit program" <--NOT a FOR-profit Ins. Co.

"Single payer is the only health reform that pays for itself. By replacing hundreds of insurers and thousands of different private health plans, each with their own marketing, enrollment, billing, utilization review, actuary and other departments, with a single, streamlined, tax-financed nonprofit program ...

Co-pays and deductibles, which have been rapidly rising under the Affordable Care Act, would be eliminated. Further, the single-payer system’s bargaining clout would rein in rising costs for drugs and medical supplies"

This ^ is NOT talking about a private for-profit insurance, it's a SINGLE NOT-FOR-PROFIT Gov't Financed entity.