Because what sane person wants for-profit medicine?
More than five years after the single-payer system was scrapped from ObamaCare policy debates, just over 50 percent of people say they still support the idea, including one-quarter of Republicans, according to a new poll.
The single-payer option – also known as Medicare for all – would create a new, government-run insurance program to replace private coverage. The system, once backed by President Obama, became one of the biggest casualties of the divisive healthcare debates of 2009.
The idea remains extremely popular among Democrats, with nearly 80 percent in support, according to the poll, which was shared first with The Hill by the Progressive Change Institute.
“There is a hunger in America for big progressive ideas,” spokesperson TJ Helmstetter wrote in a statement. “The state of our union is progressive, and the president would be smart to give America the big, popular, progressive economic ideas that people have been crying out for.”
Another proposed idea under ObamaCare – the public option – also retains wide approval.
Only 13 percent of people said they opposed the public option, which would give individuals the choice of buying healthcare through Medicare or private insurers.
As long as the Capitalists are in charge of this country (every congressperson, except one, and the president are Capitalists at this time) we will never have a single-payer health care system.
Count me among the 13% who opposes the public option. That option only reinforces an already horrible for-profit health care system. As do the subsidies given to individuals by the government to pay for the premiums on their free-enterprise insurance policies.
Of course people still want a public option or single payer. What non-moron wouldn’t? Unfortunately that whole sorry episode only served to prove to me that Democrats are devoid of democratic values. Couldn’t pass it with all of Congress AND the White House! Fucking Benedict Arnolds, every one.