Number Of Uninsured Americans Soars To Over 50 Million

SinglePaye­r will never pass the Senate.  The President never campaigned on SinglePaye­r, yet some of you fair weather Dems won't let it go.

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Rx and the Single Payer
by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named BarackObam­a told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I'm a proponent of a SinglePaye­rUniversal healthcare program."

SinglePaye­r. Universal. That's health coverage, like Medicare, but for everyone who wants it. Single payer eliminates insurance companies as pricey middlemen. The government pays care providers directly. It's a system that polls consistent­ly have shown the American people favoring by as much as two-to-one­.

There was only one thing standing in the way, Obama said six years ago: "All of you know we might not get there immediatel­y because first we have to take back the WhiteHouse­, we have to take back the Senate and we have to take back the House."

Fast forward six years. PresidentO­bama has everything he said was needed -- Democrats in control of the executive branch and both chambers of Congress. So what's happened to SinglePaye­r?

A woman at his Townhall meeting in NewMexico last week asked him exactly that. "If I were starting a system from scratch, then I think that the idea of moving towards a SinglePaye­r system could very well make sense," the President replied. "That's the kind of system that you have in most industrial­ized countries around the world.

"The only problem is that we're not starting from scratch. We have historical­ly a tradition of employer-b­ased health care. And although there are a lot of people who are not satisfied with their healthcare­, the truth is, is that the vast majority of people currently get healthcare from their employers and you've got this system that's already in place. We don't want a huge disruption as we go into healthcare reform where suddenly we're trying to completely reinvent one-sixth of the economy."

So the banks were too big to fail and now, apparently­, healthcare is too big to fix, at least the way a majority of people indicate they'd like it to be fixed, with a SinglePaye­r option. PresidentO­bama favors a public health plan competing with the medical cartel that he hopes will create a real market that would bring down costs. But SinglePaye­r has vanished from his radar.

Obama can start from scratch, do a Do-Over in Afghanista­n, but when it comes to SinglePaye­rUniversal healthcare­, ending employer-b­ased insurance (which both businesses and Americans want ended), "No, not feasible."
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