[UncleOxidant]

Moving to a single payer system would unleash a lot of latent entreprenurial activity and free companies of all sizes from having to provide health insurance. Great documentary here on the business case for moving to single payer: http://fixithealthcare.com/

[aidenn0]

I think part of the problem in the US is that the current status is so bad, that everyone has a different proposed solution.

Single payer is also seen as too paternalistic by a large minority of the US, so there is that as well.

[bobthepanda]

The real problem is that the current status is so bad, that those who are relatively better off (probably still bad) are scared of change because they've seen what "worse" looks like and a better system seems mostly aspirational.

There is a reason why ACA messaging from Democrats always included the fact that you could keep your existing insurance if you wanted.

[skrtskrt]

> I think part of the problem in the US is that the current status is so bad, that everyone has a different proposed solution.

“Everyone has different solutions” as in the two parties, both corporatist through and through, are only willing to offer solutions that nip around the edges of the problem with ridiculously complex regulations that ultimately result in less competition and higher profits for healthcare conglomerates.

Single payer in the vein of “Medicare for All” is popular for voters of both parties. It’s just that our representatives represent us in name only.

> Single payer is also seen as too paternalistic by a large minority of the US, so there is that as well.

Again there’s a disconnect between the discourse you can see on corporate cable news and major newspapers and what people actually think and want.

That said, the corporate media and Dems/Rs have been very very successful in 50 years of messaging that everything the government does = bad, inefficient, rationing. And everything corporate = dynamic, efficient, desirable. Almost everything that can be privatized has been privatized via crony capitalism, but they can still say “govt has big budgets, shitty results” when it’s their privatization that is the exact reason for the decay.

It’s depressing how effective it all is.

[aidenn0]

I don't watch cable news. I know dozens of people who are vehemently opposed to single-payer. The reasons are paternalism and distrust of government to get things right.

To a certain extent, I agree with the second; I'm kind of glad that the current administration doesn't have control over my health care...