Yes! With healthcare costs going up - we will eventually see the light.
72%
No! The heathcare lobbyists and companies will never let that happen.
28%
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I can't believe that it is not already in place.
Eventually but who knows when Under GOP Pres / Congress NEVER
The Idea of medicade was to become single payer for the nation. the big money has stalled it sence the 60's. the people are despraite and the time is now. we will have it the way canada got theirs. state by state here.
Almost 40 percent of Americans cannot or do not read. Most of the Tea Baggers fit into this group. Until they can figure-out what they are - exactly - angry about, nothing will happen to ensure single payer healthcare at the federal level. Hopefully more progressive states will vote out the insurance companies.
American could have already replaced SickCare with Single-Payer healthcare, but a 99% supermajority comprised of liberals and conservatives regularly voting in solidarity together for the corporate (R) & (D) party's candidates reliably votes against Single-Payer in national elections.
In the 2008 election there were two POTUS candidates (The Green Party's McKinney, and the independent Nader) who would have energetically and firmly used the power of that office to provide Single-Payer... rather than make SickCare even sicker, like Obama did.
Perhaps the reason the liberals claiming to be Single-Payer advocates refused to vote to get Single-Payer for All when they could have provided a near 70 million majority popular vote mandate for it was because both of the Single-Payer advocate POTUS candidates also **ACTUALLY** oppose Americas wars of aggression that liberals keep voting for more of (provided the both dumb and criminal wars are liberal comforting relabeled "necessary" or "humanitarian").
Or, perhaps the reason that liberals claiming to be Single-Payer advocates refused to vote to get Single-Payer for All when they could have was because both of the Single-Payer advocate POTUS candidates also **ACTUALLY** oppose the eco-destructive desperate fossil-fuel addiction extraction processes, like mountaintop removal that became "sustainable economic development" when Obama's EPA continued to permit it. Now Democrats, like NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, hanging on the coattails of Obamamania, are MovingOn to "safely" use Halliburton's even more desperate and truly insane fracking process, that permanently contaminates vast amounts of water to rip the tiniest remnants of fossil-fuel from stone.
Everything that's outrageously insane becomes calmingly sane for liberals, when Democrats do it.
We could all have had a better and sustainable world now, and our children could have had a future, if there weren't so many millions of corporate party member liberals (D) dedicated to preventing it.
See The "Principles" of Liberal Voters:
http://www.chenangogreens.org
Well, it is encouraging to know that the majority who responded here, believe it WILL happen! (Our) thoughts do preceed actions, after all! We must focus & work even harder for what we want, not what we don't (yet)have! Remain positive, despite what appears to be the odds against us!
Here in CA we are hoping Governor Brown will sign legislation that AAAhnold vetoed which will create a single-payer system. If it happens here, and I do not mean to be immodest by saying this, it could very well then sweep the country with the good start we already have.
Insurance companies are corporations! Corporations first requirement it to make profits! How can peoples premiums they pay each month be spent on the best possible care, if there are profits being extracted from those very same premiums? Here in Boston, and I freely admit, I received wonderful care for my Hodgkins Lymphoma that I was diagnosed with in 2006, at the age of 31. But, we had a case where, Cleve Killingsworth, CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield, a "non-profit", collecting millions in salary and on the way out the door, was given an 11 million dollar parachute, after he ran the once giant into the ground. We need to end this BS!!! We need to support every state/community that goes for single payer, period! Let's turn "Profits over People" into "Premium care FOR the People without Profits"
The way to get single payer is to challenge Medicare as "unequal protection". However, the cost problem is not in who pays, but in how the product is packaged through insurance. We need to obliterate all insurance terms and concepts from medical and healthcare services payment mechanisms. Alternatives are entitlement, charity, procurement, contracts for outcomes, etc.