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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (262318)4/22/2008 6:12:56 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Yes we don't have a single payer plan, but many are advocating for one.

Also while Medicare and Medicaid combined, even with the addition of SCHIP and state initiatives, are only a fraction of the health care or health care insurance market, Medicare is dominant in the market for the elderly. Its true many of them get additional health insurance, but they are all covered by Medicare, even one or two people I know who looked in to opting out but couldn't find a practical way to do so.

Sure a number of big corporations favor single payer. They would like to nationalize the cost they have previously agreed to pay for health care benefits. Whether they will actually benefit them is a rather open question, but even if it does benefit them it doesn't mean that it will benefit the country as a whole.
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