Reply #3: Um, there is no vote on single payer [View All]

[frazzled]

I don't usually respond to these types of threads about single payer, because I just don't understand them. Like so many, I believe a single payer system would be best in an ideal world. But I am realistic enough to deduce that if we are having tons of trouble even getting the kind of modest reform that is being proposed, there wouldn't be a chance in aitch-ee-double-toothpicks a single-payer bill would ever even make it out of a single committee. What is it that people just don't get about that?

I feel it's rather mendacious to keep pushing single payer when you know it isn't remotely possible. Let's get a strong public option in now, which will pave the way for the gradual sidelining of the insurance industry ... at which point pushing for single-payer will make lots of sense.