Reply #2: Alas, Big Insurance trumps common sense and logic

[RufusTFirefly]

The only reason -- and I do mean the only reason -- why this country isn't well on the road to adopting single-payer Medicare for All is because Big Insurance and Big Pharma don't want it. We need to face this fact head on and wonder what kind of democracy we have when a powerful industry can control whether we live or die, stay prosperous or go bankrupt.

No system is perfect. And we can learn a lot about how to implement our version of single-payer by studying the systems in the world's civilized nations. But we aren't even having that national discussion because the insurance companies with their propaganda of doom and gloom won't even let us get that far.