Vandalshandle
Gold Member
Tell ya what. Find a single republican Senator, or even Rep., who supports single payer. Then you have a little credibility that the republican party will not fight against single payer until their last breath. The only way we will ever get rid of ACA and replace it with single payer, which is the only thing that will work in the long haul, is to once again have a democratic controlled house, senate and presidency. Having said that, you must exclude Trump, who specifically said before he was elected that he supports universal coverage. Now, of course, he does not.
What? You are confused on a couple of issues. I'm not claiming the Republicans won't fight single payer. I'll fight it too. I think it's a bad idea. Single Payer is better than ACA - at least it's honest socialism - but it's still antithetical to freedom. I'll also point out, again, that Democrats don't have consensus on single payer, even in their own party - so that's going nowhere. Marxist pipe dreams aside, ACA is the insurance industry's "last stand" against single payer. It's designed to forestall it as long as possible by co-opting the regulatory state to force everyone to play along. It's the ugliest sort of corporatist government.
OK. Sounds like you would prefer that I resurrect my career, and start declining health insurance applications again. I can live with that, if that is what America wants. I made a fairly decent living off of condemning people to die for lack of insurance to pay for critical operations.
Sounds like you're nursing delusions of grandeur. You weren't Death incarnate. You were an insurance bureaucrat. Get over it.
I seem to have a hard time figuring out just what the hell you are in favor of. You hate ACA. You hate single payer. You don't seem to have any position whatever on health insurance the way it was before ACA, when millions were denied insurance altogether. So tell me. Just what solution, if any, do you support that would stop the cost shifting from the poor and uninsurables to the insured, that would not violate your anti-Marxist principles. My take is that you are just a whiner who does not favor any solution at all.