Single Payer Healthcare Will Never Happen

wallyj84

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The transition to single payer will be very difficult and things like this are the reason why it might never happen.

As much as people on the far left like to shit on the affordable care act, it exists as it does for a reason. You can't dismantle or drastically change the current health care system without some people being left behind.
 

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The transition to single payer will be very difficult and things like this are the reason why it might never happen.

As much as people on the far left like to shit on the affordable care act, it exists as it does for a reason. You can't dismantle or drastically change the current health care system without some people being left behind.

There won’t be a transition. It will never get by the teacher’s union. The Democrats are owned outright by the public sector unions and right now public sector pay very little for cadillac healthcare. This is about the 7th time that states have tried to create a single payer plan and the unions then kill it.
 

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There won’t be a transition. It will never get by the teacher’s union. The Democrats are owned outright by the public sector unions and right now public sector pay very little for cadillac healthcare. This is about the 7th time that states have tried to create a single payer plan and the unions then kill it.

There are a lot of parties that want to stop single payer. It isn't just some unions.

Having said that, their concerns were legitimate. They made deals under the assumption that the health care system would remain largely the same. No one can blame them for wanting to protect their members by going against policies that would make older deals that still affect a lot of people less beneficial.