Reply #23: Agree completely but we need to frame it differently

[phillysuse]

I like Medicare for All, rather than universal health care. It's easier to understand, most people know someone on Medicare - Mom, Grandma or themselves. Medicare is not threatening.
In 1965, the Republicans tried to pain Medicare as socialized medicine but over 40 years later, everyone knows it is not.
They know Medicare as offering choice of physician and hospital, i.e. private, for profit medicine - a truly capitalist endeavor.

Glad you are feeling better and sorry about your encounter with the American health care system driven by the profit motives of large insurance companies.

And remember, Edwards wants to keep large insurance companies in the loop.; I don't think Hillary knows what she stands for regarding health care; in 1994 she was for highly managed care controlled by her friends in the big insurance companies, such as Zoe Baird from Aetna. Now mostly she wants to be President.
Obama doesn't have a plan to get to "Universal" health care yet but maybe he will get Medicare for All.
Wesley Clark, the unannounced, is for a single payer system but since he hasn't announced yet, we don't have his details as to how he would transition to single payer.