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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: skinowski who wrote (24298)	7/21/2012 4:13:35 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

What will need to evolve, IMO, is a double system. One would be run by the government and paid for through taxes. It would have to be very basic and cheap. BUT - everyone would have basic healthcare available. I agree with this. It's the most sensible and robust system we can come up with. But I don't think we can go there directly, politically speaking. The path to that is Medicare for All, which will be unstable, and will devolve into what you describe. I used the word, "devolve," because proponents of single payer will consider it that and society will treat it as that but I see it as evolution, not devolution. IMO, the devolution is the intermediate single payer. Neither of us will live long enough for this to play out.