re: #15 francis

dog, I have talked to Canadians, specifically a man who brought his wife to Michigan for treatment. He was too late and she passed away. The point of the letter is to make the law permanent and stronger. Medicare is a single payer insurance plan that the doctors like and the hospitals, so why didn’t they model it after Medicare? No they had to fill it with restrictions, demands on business and a lot of horse shit taxes.

canadians - i have canadian in-laws and co-workers - support single payer to the hilt, and no canadian politician of any stripe dares to say a word against it

it is true that it suffers from long waiting lines. curiously, in britain, where the socialization of medicine is complete and even the hospitals are run by the government, they don’t have the waiting line problem

you friend brought his wife to michigan because HE HAD THE CASH TO DO IT AND PAY FOR IT PRIVATELY OUT OF HIS OWN POCKET. anybody with enough cash to do this can get the best medical care in the world right here in the united states. people who can manage to come up with this money, even if it was a strain for him to do it, are not the people who government subsidies for health care, medicare and medicaid, and single payer systems are aimed at

i mean this should be obvious, right?

as for the rube goldberg machine that is ACA, the reason we have arrived here is that obama naively believed that if he promoted the conservative, heritage foundation universal coverage plan, he’d get the cooperation of republicans

hah

so, i’m happy to hear that a 67 year old veteran and small business owner is in favor of the position widely called ‘socialist’ by republican politicians, the position that health care coverage modeled on canadian single payer and medicare would be the better way to go

it works well in a large part of the rest of the developed world. why not here?