Rigby5
Diamond Member
Single payer right ? I've been through the Government run healthcare system. The VA is a fucking nightmare.It should be pretty clear that Obamacare is not going to be overturn by the Supreme Court. Conservatives have 3 times tried and struck out. The only way it is going to be overturned is if republican in congress do it. Republicans had a chance when they controlled Congress during the Trump administration. Instead of making it a priority, they punted and left it to the courts. The fact is conservatives want Obamacare gone but they don't want to have to offer a replacement because of the problems it will cause them at the ballot box. 28 million people have health insurance due to Obamacare. 38 states have adopted Medicaid Expansion, a part of Obamacare. Without Obamacare, those states would be faced with either a huge cut to Medicaid or replacing federal funds with state funds.It was just announced that the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Obamacare saying the states don't have standing on this case.
So Obamacare stays.
For now.
Supreme Court spares Obamacare from GOP challenge
Two of Trump's three appointees, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, joined the majority opinion, while the third, Neil Gorsuch, dissented.www.nbcnews.com
ACA will be obsolete when something better is devised.
And I think that is the public option.
How to get that?
Easy, just end the employer tax exemption for employee benefits.
Then almost all private health insurance will disappear.
Sure VA is not great, but private health insurance is even worse because it cost too much for about 40% of the population.
If insurance companies were not deliberately buying up all the good doctors and nurses, then VA would have better staff.
Single payer is better because then the payer is on your side and you have collective bargaining power we don't have now.
Right now the insurance companies are not on our side because they want to control profits.
Single payer is not out for profit, so it is not trying to scrimp on pooled money it does not care about.
Single payer is not skimming off profits.
Single payer works in all other countries.