the formula for a transition to single payer is simple: expand Medicare down, expand Medicaid up

[geek tragedy]

Expand Medicare downwards in terms of age eligibility, expand Medicaid up in terms of qualifying income/assets.

That way you get buy in from 55-64 year olds as well as working class voters who resent (fairly or unfairly) poor people getting government healthcare while they don't.

Eventually the two programs will converge.

[Alice11111]

1. or just go straight Medicare w subsidies based on income

for the poor, like with Obamacare . That would be a huge step, then we can start working on Part D and more.

We need to work to take out the Mafia Middle Men, health insurance and drug companies.