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In reply to the discussion: Message auto-removed [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)Some blue states are already working on them. Other blue states will pass them due to pressure from voters like you.
With no need to profit, they should be cheaper than the private insurance plans. That will cause some people to switch. Those people won't die, dismantling the FUD against "government healthcare!!". That will cause more people to switch. As the private pool dries up, their expenses will get higher and eventually you're left with just the government option. And since these are "blue" states, the Republicans will have a much harder time stopping it at the state level.
Purple states will see people in blue states paying less and getting better care. They will pressure their states to follow suit.
With most states already doing single-payer, making it a federal reality becomes far easier. Not to mention the insurance companies would be a lot poorer by this time, and thus not nearly as able to buy Congresspeople.
It's more-or-less how Canada got single-payer.
As for a link to a written "long-term plan", I don't know of one. It just strikes me as the most obvious way forward, and not all that hard of a path. It will take time and patience to traverse. But Congress is never going to leap to "Medicare for all" without some ground work at the state level.