Reply #24: of course we need single payer

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but given that we're not going to get it, I can tolerate the system in the bill. It's a half assed way to do things, but it is marginally functional, which beats the current system. Given time, with community rating, for profit insurers will become nothing more than heavily regulated health utilities.

Which is still an inferior approach to single payer, but it is workable, and has been implemented in other countries.