People intentionally confusing the two to score points is very annoying I KNOW that the existing health insurance system is full of waste and if you made it disappear and replaced it with single-payer you'd save money The question is HOW DO YOU DO THAT
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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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There's obviously no middle path between hoping people like Pelosi will let you pass good legislation and rolling out the guillotines, right? It's not like you can do speeches, ask people to cal senators and stir up popular pressure, or even call for strikes, right?
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The President going on TV and demanding a General Strike is not as much of a fantasy as Bernie Sanders personally kicking down the door of Blue Cross corporate HQ and shooting all the executives, but it's a difference of degree and not kind
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Maybe, maybe not. The fact that it hasn't been done (here, recently) does not actually make it impossible or mean it would be ineffective. And you chose to respond to the most extreme option I mentioned and that any of us think might be remotely possible from him.
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And it's a PROBLEM that so many of us cannot imagine any solutions beyond violent, bloody revolution or hoping the people who get elected because of funding from billionaires will just agree to be nicer. Because positive change isn't free or easy. Not realistic.
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"Hoping people will suddenly become nicer" is exactly what the Green Lantern theory of politics involving "political revolution" seems to be about Compromise will become unnecessary because huge swathes of people will all experience Damascus Road conversions
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"The voters will all suddenly realize they're in favor of M4A, and they'll all call their Republican senators and tell them they'll have to vote for it, and then it will pass"
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