How Trumpcares Failure Sets the Stage for Single-Payer (Medicare for All)

[workinclasszero]

How Trumpcare’s Failure Sets the Stage for Single-Payer
With the implosion of "repeal and replace," the next logical step in Democratic health care reform is Medicare for All.
By Sarah Jones March 28, 2017

Trumpcare is dead. President Donald Trump is humiliated and so is House Speaker Paul Ryan.

The Democrats can hardly believe their luck: The Republicans have hobbled their own agenda, while Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act, lives to fight another day. But unlike the law’s previous brushes with death—most notably its bruising encounters with the Supreme Court in 2012 and 2015—this latest example of its resilience represents a turning point, if Democrats choose to seize the opportunity.

For three reasons—political, structural, and moral—now is the time for the Democratic Party to begin building a proposal for a single-payer health care system.

https://newrepublic.com/article/141651/trumpcares-failure-sets-stage-single-payer

[beachbum bob]

1. until democrats retake house senate and whitehouse, single payer never happens

[msongs]

2. now is the time to promote this. if one waves the white flag one will achieve nothing. nt

[workinclasszero]

3. It needs to be voted on continuously until it passes

If that's possible.

How many damn times did the republicans vote to kill the ACA with no hope of it happening?

The next time the greedy health care companies jack up rates, then democrats can point to the latest bill and tell the public hey we have the solution right here but republicans stopped it.

[Dustlawyer]

4. Something as big as Medicare for all takes time to turn the people around

that you need to turn around. By putting Bernie's bill up and getting the Democrats behind it (easier said than done), it gives the people something to compare to whatever heartless, useless crap they may put together. The jury is still out on whether they can get something passed.

This is a marathon, but Trump and Paul Ryan may gives us a boost!

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Thanks for your optomism

Of course they can't do anything legislatively right now. But what they CAN do is prime the pump. Start to discuss it. Write the enabling legislation. Talk about it at town hall meetings. Chat it up on cabalnooz. Set up a website. Get state and local Dems to do the same.

That's how it gets started.

[Adrahil]

6. I'm a pretty liberal democrat and I'm skeptical...

of a single payer system in this environment.

Single payer scares me because it means one set of coverage options, at the mercy of a gerrymandered Congress.

I favor a robust public option available everywhere, and to everyone. If it is superior to the other offerings, it will naturally win out.

Also, I favor automatic enrollment. If you don't choose an alternate plan, you are automatically registered with the public option.

Lastly, we need to move away from employer-provided health insurance.