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In reply to the discussion: Prominent Democratic Consultants Sign Up to Defeat Single Payer in Colorado [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)Single Payer would be a national program with IMMENSE Collective Bargaining Power with both the Health Care Providers and the Pharmaceutical Corporations.
"Universal Health Care" has come to mean the everybody has Health Insurance.
I don't believe that any one state has enough of a Risk Pool to make a State Run Public Option viable, and that gives the Insurance Industry Ammo point to states like Vermont as say,
"See, we tried it, and it didn't work."
Colorado will be in the same boat.
IIRC, there is also a Poison Pill written into the ACA that states that for an individual state to implement a state run program, it must break even the first year....that NO State or Federal funds can be used to help with start up costs and low return during the enrollment process. Under these conditions, there is no way for a new State Run Public Option system to survive the first year. Ask Vermont.
We NEED a National Single Payer Public Option. Nothing less will work.