(June 25, 2015 at 1:02 pm)polar bear Wrote: OK I am just going to say it and get blasted by some of you.
We need to go further than Obamacare takes it. We need a single payer plan. It is good enough for our seniors. (try taking away medicare from them) I am a Veteran it is good enough for me at the VA. Yes there are horror stories of wait times, but when something is urgent medically shit happens FAST. I can personally attest to that. The routine stuff is what gets reported.
Can it all be fixed, sure. Can Obamacare be fixed, sure.
WTF is the republicans alternative though...going back to the same way it was before?
So far, everyone who has replied agrees with you, so you are not getting blasted, at least not yet.
It is the best that was politically possible at the time, and if we were trying to get something now, we would not even be able to get something as good as Obamacare.
But yes, single payer is the right way. Politics, though, involves compromise if one wishes to accomplish anything, and so we have Obamacare rather that a single payer system that we should have.
The Republicans have nothing to offer that would be better. They would make things worse, and want to make things worse for poor people.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
