Re:Cost of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Rises Toward $...
by viraptor on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @12:22AM
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I think there's a huge difference between "federal government is responsible" and specifically single payer solution. There's more ways fed gov could be involved.
Re:Cost of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Rises Toward $...
by nerfhammer on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:45PM
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yea, but any specific plan that is put forward will go through an absolutely endless relentless well-practiced vilification process and many people will end up believing that the bill is intended to the do opposite of whatever it actually does, largely only to get people to listen to radio ads.
There is more support for single payer than you might have been led to believe.
"Currently, 60% say the federal government is responsible for ensuring health care coverage for all Americans, while 39% say this is not the government’s responsibility. These views are unchanged from January, but the share saying health coverage is a government responsibility remains at its highest level in nearly a decade."
"Even among those who say the federal government is not responsible for ensuring Americans have health care coverage, there is little public appetite for government withdrawing entirely from involvement in health care coverage. Among the public, 33% say that health care coverage is not the government’s responsibility, but that programs like Medicare and Medicaid should be continued; just 5% of Americans say the government should not be involved at all in providing health insurance."
Emphasis mine.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/23/public-suppo...
EDIT: HN throttling, sorry for editing this instead of replying.
@nerfhammer:
That doesn't mean you don't try.