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Originally Posted by Tien
Its basically the elephant in the room where both parties have to wrestle with and where it eventually ends up single payer over time.
I'm pretty sure that that would require a shift so major that, in that scenario, healthcare reform would be just one of many fundamental reorganizations. When you see people like Hillary and Donald as the choices, it means there is very little positive relationship between what the majority wants and what it gets.
I mean, Corey Booker, who it seems is being presented as a 2020 presidential candidate, wouldn't even vote for a measure to allow importation of drugs from Canada. These people just lost to Donald Trump (who, in a deviation from his typical anti-trade stances, actually said he was for allowing prescription drug importation) and there they are, doing what their biggest sponsors tel them to do on an issue in direct opposition to public opinion.
No wiggle room on prescription drug price gouging but eventual single payer? No. As long as corporate lobbyists don't want single payer, and the establishment politicians are occupying the government, there will be no single payer. And these people are entrenched, in large part because they have "educated" morons like Fly, Wookie, Trolly, etc. believing that they are in some epic war against homophobes/racists.