"I think the real chance is if a big state like California or New York can be forceful enough and progressive enough to push it across the finish line. And once one state does that and we see it function well there--similar to what we saw happen with Romney Care, which served as the model for the ACA--then I think it will be a similar scenario for single payer. That's the way it happened in Australia; their national health care system started state-by-state and many of us know the story of Canada and Tommy Douglas. The crisis in health care is not going to get any smaller any time soon. The nation is going to have to go at it again. (Even with full implementation of the ACA, not all U.S. citizens will be covered and medical bankruptcy remains in place with the ACA). The number of people suffering is really not going to back off until we truly transform the system to one that's universal and financed under a single payer system."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dX0DkcQAso4
What Is Single Payer
The best explanation on a definition of single payer can be found at the Physicians For A National Health Program by clicking here. Another way of describing it is: Medicare For All. And yet another way of thinking of it is: imagine that terms such as "deductible." "out of pocket," "copay" "co-insurance" "HMO" "PPO" all disappeared from our medical vocabulary. Every medical necessary procedure would be covered. As difficult as it is for Americans to imagine, this is how the rest of the industrialized world provides health care coverage for all of its citizens. For more information on single payer, we recommend googling and reading, or linking to the following web sites:
Physicians For A National Health Program
Campaign For A Health California
The Progressive Democrats of America
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