Single payer means breaking the link with the employer and it also means eliminating health insurance companies (although the government would probably hire those same companies to do their processing). As with most Americans, I am nervous about taking those steps given how entrenched we are in the current reality. But I am with you in one way but not another. Yes, Single Payer may be the logical and realistic next step. But here’s the difference. You will want it to fail to get to some vague unknown. I would hope that it could succeed.
We already have a large government program, Medicare, that takes in, every year, twice the gdp of Sweden, and it’s hopelessly bankrupt. So, pardon me if I lack the confidence of an even bigger government program succeeding.
If you look at every industry in which the US Government is heavily involved the common thread is absurdly high costs: education, healthcare & housing.
The US has by far the biggest government in the history of the world yet to the left it’s still not enough.
You know, it is in the range of possibilities that big government is the problem.
