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Re:United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Ne... by mrfusion on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:36PM (#12081730)
Why are we going to end up with single payer? I didn't follow that part of your argument.
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Re:United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Ne... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:43PM (#12081783)
I removed that part of my comment, as I thought it was not relevant to the specific point.

As the US population ages, more and more people will be on Medicare [1]. This increases its power, and removes almost entirely the likelihood it would be scaled back.

We will eventually have no choice but to move to single payer, as the cracks in the current model (dictated by the ACA) are already forming.

[1] https://www.census.gov/prod/2014pubs/p25-1140.pdf (warning: pdf)

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