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In reply to the discussion: Medicare for All Costs Too Much, Pelosi Adviser Assures Health Insurance Executives [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Expanding and using the now popular ACA is the only viable way to Universal Healthcare.
The first step is to legally mandate that healthcare insurance be nonprofit. Which it has been before and in some cases still is. Ironically, this article deals with Blue Cross which was non profit when my parents were young.
The main reason the ACA is our way forward is because it keeps our employers in the game. And it would be relatively easy(compared to getting the ACA) to eliminate the games employers play with keeping employees under a certain hour limit to avoid healthcare. You employ them, you pay their insurance.
Try to take the employer out of the game and we lose the House. 50 percent of Americans get their insurance from their employer. And since the ACA it has pretty strict mandates it is good healthcare. No way in hell these folks will vote for a party who wants to take their insurance away for something better.
Fortunately, the French faced all these issues and kind of show us the way. They have perhaps the best healthcare in the world and it is nothing like Medicare for all.