I’m for it!
Who wouldn’t like that; healthcare for all? What? The employees who like their employer provided healthcare and don’t want to give it up? Oh. Who else? The taxpayers who will be asked to pay more to support healthcare for all? Anyone else? Oh, all the people who work in the health insurance industry that don’t want to get put out of work? And the doctors who don’t like the Medicare level of payment for services versus the private pay? And the hospitals whose entire cost structure is built on getting more from private pay than from Medicare? Okay, so there are a few issues.
There are so many reasons for not going to single payer, or healthcare for all, but isn’t it unconscionable to maintain that some people in our country can get medical insurance and others can’t; to continue to deny an entire segment of our population affordable access to healthcare? We have to take the opposite approach. We throw out all the objections; all the reasons why we can’t do universal healthcare and start with the commitment that we *can*. We are not the only country that has faced this issue; we’re just the only developed nation that hasn’t found its own solution.
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