Reply #11: Never going to "give up" on single payer. It's a human rights issue and a moral issue.

[seafan]

There are many, many people pushing for single payer. Doctors; nurses; increasing numbers in Congress;
members of the Senate such as Bernie Sanders, who is fighting gallantly for it; people like Ed Schultz and Lawrence O'Donnell, who talk about this every night on television; regular citizens who brave the shouters.


All of these *plans* roiling Congress right now keep health insurance companies IN THE EQUATION.


With the noisy fragmentation of plans/co-ops/triggers/rules for drug price negotiations/backroom deals, the health insurance companies will continue to rob the populace of their health, their money and their lives... UNLESS WE STOP THEM BY REMOVING INSURANCE COMPANIES FROM OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM and, thereby, from their obscene profits at the people's expense.

Single payer (Medicare for all) will do that.




I'm sorry you are discouraged. This country is undergoing tremendous social change right now.


But remember, anything that is worth having is worth fighting for.