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Single Payer Health Systems

kennetha

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7. Universal Healthcare is not necessarily the same as single payer medicare for all.

Reply to JayhawkSD (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 19, 2019, 10:11 AM

Feb 2019

It is not a question of "moral fiber." It's a question of diverse means to a common end. Unless you are just morally opposed to markets, there is no moral argument for saying that you shouldn't never ever try to achieve universality through any scheme that relies even partly on the market.

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How do you move from for profit to single payer/Medicare for all? [View all] Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 OP

Very simple - Allow open Enrollment in Medicare for Anyone zaj Feb 2019 #1

Medicare for anyone who wants it. kennetha Feb 2019 #2

There is a reason the industry pushed back so hard on Medicare Option zaj Feb 2019 #6

It will only be "extraordinarily complicated" if the lobbyists write the law Property Question Apr 2019 #26

First homegirl Sep 2019 #30

Time to buy off homegirl Sep 2019 #29

Then there's Sherrod Brown's idea Ohiogal Feb 2019 #3

Yes and would be pretty easy to implement...but Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #9

Incrementally zipplewrath Feb 2019 #4

Excellent. Not sure quite understood step one tho Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #10

Yes zipplewrath Feb 2019 #12

Use the Nike method. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #5

Universal Healthcare is not necessarily the same as single payer medicare for all. kennetha Feb 2019 #7

Of course it's not the same. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #8

I hear you. Can you think of any possible way Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #13

No. You cannot make hard things easy. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #17

Can't a major initiative be fully realized in the future Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #20

Good is the enemy of excellent. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #22

Defined by wiki....for those of us in the learning stage Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #14

Yes, except we don't want the "financed by taxes" part. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #18

How are you suggesting it be paid for? Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #19

Taxes. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #21

Isn't it the only source of money? How about tariffs :) I read someone suggest Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #23

Well, MMT says otherwise. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #24

Who said that? Crickets? Property Question Apr 2019 #28

That's probably where we are now? Our candidates Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #11

Exactyl my point. JayhawkSD Feb 2019 #16

Just do it! YES!!! Property Question Apr 2019 #27

PNHP generally has good information area51 Feb 2019 #15

Many candidates have signed onto the Jayapal plan. Buzz cook Apr 2019 #25

I am in the VA healthcare system. It is a single payer healthcare system for 9 million veterans. marie999 Oct 2020 #31

Original cause franzwohlgemuth Dec 2020 #32

Yes, the health care industry they probably mapped out on a cocktail Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2020 #33

Exactly franzwohlgemuth Dec 2020 #34