Obama-Care can evolve into single-payer healthcare

[awake]

By simply allowing people to have the option of selecting to buy into Medicare. If this were added to Obama-Care then in a few short years not only would we be making Medicare more financially sound, most if not all americans would choose that option and we would end up with single-payer healthcare.

[Hoyt]

1. That's what I think too, although Medicare has a lot of gaps and issues. The toughest part

was getting some framework enacted.

[yodermon]

2. Public option. Add it as it was intended

and it's all downhill from there.

[awake]

3. I assume you intend that "downhill" is a good thing, right?

[yodermon]

6. yes, lol i see how that could go both ways n/t

[loyalsister]

4. Medicaid expansion

is so close to single payer.
The disparities between states that expanded medicaid vs. those that haven't provides a solid basis for an argument for single payer.
If it can be done with so much success via ,medicaid, why not medicare?

One valuable lesson we have gained from Obamacare is the as long as someone is making money off of it, they will budget risks because that is the business they are in.

I think/hope that there will be research that shows the success of medicaid.
I hope that is why Bernie is so confident that he can get us a single payer plan.

[TransitJohn]

5. Daschle and Obama killed that

Flip flopped on a "strong public option."