The best article I've read about why we don't have single payer/universal healthcare...

[trof]

and why we (probably) never will.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-history-of-why-the-us-is-the-only-rich-country-without-universal-health-care/ar-BBEGidF?ocid=spartandhp

This is worth reading.
Did you know that labor unions are partly to blame?
Me neither.

Did you know that it would probably throw 800,000 people out of a job, at least for a while?

Did you know that the Democrats are (is?) not our 'labor' party?
(We don't have one.)

And we don't have a 'working class' because they (we) all think of ourselves as 'middle class'.

This is NOT an indictment of our party, by any means.
But it is the best explanation I have seen in my 75 years as to why we don't have universal health care.

[wasupaloopa]

1. Why would labor unions want health care

as a benefit if there were single payer?



If it weren't for the benefit wages would go up

[MichMan]

2. Not certain that employers would just raise wages

While the cost of health insurance is now part of an employees total compensation, I'm not convinced that having single payer would mean that wages would automatically rise the same amount

Some might and others might not

[msongs]

3. medicare for all gets the highest approval (article end) cuz ppl know what medicare is and BTW

the article says medicare is an "entitlement" when it is in fact an EARNED benefit since we pay into it during our working years