Reply #14: the single payer segment was amazing!! the arguments for it are so common sense.

[ejpoeta]

as long as we have all these different entities, the bureaucracy will have to remain. and that adds a lot to the cost. the more i hear about how just having a public option won't help the more i agree. i had thought that at least if there were a public option then everyone would end up going there. apparently that is what happened to medicare. but then they did the thing where people could go with univera or independent health... and they take all the healthy folks and leave the sick to the public plan. the public plan can't work if only the sick people are in it. that makes a lot of sense. if everyone is in one system, then the healthy not using as much as the sick offsets the costs. and it would go back and forth so that not everyone is needing to use from the system at the same time. if only the sick people are in the public system, then everyone is drawing from it at the same time. how is it possible that would ever work. it's like everyone going down to the bank and pulling their money out at the same time. the bank would fail in that situation.