A defensive posture and incremental demands have not worked. Let’s play offense instead.
A defensive posture and incremental demands have not worked. Let’s play offense instead.
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Single payer would simplify all of this by largely cutting out the insurance and pharmaceutical companies and untethering coverage from your job. The losers are those middlemen, like private insurance companies, that make the current system so frustrating to navigate and politically fraught. Also, much to the dismay of the wealthiest households, their taxes would increase the most of any group.
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"[The Democrats] need a counter-offer, one that's more compelling than the creaky status quo. They need a single-payer, Medicare-for-All plan."
The Trump-induced health crisis could become an unforeseen opportunity for single-payer advocates: it just might spur a mass movement for a comprehensive government-run plan liberated from insurance markets and providing free, equal access, regardless of health or economic status.
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