The question of "How will you pay for it" re: universal healthcare (or any social program) has two meanings: 1) Where do the resources in the economy exist to do it, and 2) How will you legally and politically create a system to make it happen They are very different questions
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"I would do it by starting a revolution" is not a satisfying answer, at least not when you're promising to get it done sometime in the next five years
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As long as I've been paying attention to this issue the most plausible path toward universal coverage has always been a universal mandate + public option and the public option steadily grows to cover more and more of the population
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This isn't a half measure being proposed because Americans are uniquely recalcitrant capitalists, this is literally what happened in several European countries, whose universal coverage evolved from or in some cases still is a "mixed" system
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But now we're being told this is unacceptable and the only way we will ever see universal coverage is if an iron-fisted President marches into the corporate offices of Blue Cross Blue Shield shouting "Your business is over! To the guillotine with you!" Sorry if I'm skeptical
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Look, I hate the big private insurers too, but they exist now and they're very powerful The NHS in the UK was formed at a time when "health insurance" was only purchased by the rich, most doctor's visits were paid in cash and the NHS was the first insurance most people ever had
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That's not the world we live in anymore and we can't recreate it Path dependency is a thing
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Yep, that wastefulness means the USA spends more than other countries despite providing less care, afaik. https://www.crfb.org/papers/american-health-care-health-spending-and-federal-budget …
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