Reply #152: The California legislature has passed it twice but arnold vetoed it. The AMA is a shadow of

[John Q. Citizen]

it former self though just as reactionary. It now represents not more than 15% of the physicians in the US and they are the old ones mostly.

The last poll I saw 59% of doctors would support a single payer system.

If it passed a legislature then it becomes hard to torpedo.

Have you been watching the polls on health care? People are fed up with private insurance. They figured out that their business modle is to charge as much as possible and to pay out as little as possible.
We just saw the collapse and failure of capitalism. So it's not the same as it was even 5 years ago.

Not to mention that people have been working to get a single payer system here since the 1940's in that time a lot of people have bee educated to the benefits.