2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I feel the need to say something. [View all]ReallyIAmAnOptimist
(357 posts)...your OP was a real pleasure to read!
Plus the discussion following it--hats off to all you commenters too!
Yeah, I've been banged up pretty bad by the anti-Universal healthcare peeps here. Single Payer was my signature issue in 2008. I was naive to think Obama would actually try to get it done. And so disappointed that we didn't even end up with a Public Option.
We all know it's all about the money. The more than $500 billion/yr the country would save eliminates the pointless zero-value-add middleman and all the associated overhead for providers. But many of those saved billions are profits... and maybe a billion in various CEO's pay, which they have no intention of parting with... hence no "desire" to change anything by our corrupt Congress (and HRC). It's unpatriotic, pathetic, and I'm really sick of it.