Reply #19: Cobra is so weak, It's unusable for most. The problem is that funding for Medicare [View All]

pays for the coverage for people 65 and older.

How would we pay for it to cover others?

People expect results now. What they don't understand it their is no way to get results now.

Add to that whose ever stupid idea it was to completely cut single payer advocates out of the hearings (Baucus has to take the responsibility on that, even if it was a staffers idea) and people are up in arms. That's both good and bad, IMHO.

my hope is that people will actually look at what it';s going to take us to get to there from here.


The savings from single payer are real, but until we have everyone with an income paying into a system (and no longer paying into private systems) we won't see savings but increases in costs. Will the public stand for that?

Will vets be OK with no more VA? How do we convert long term obligations for retirement coverage into the single payer pool.

It took ten years to get to the moon when Kennedy decide to go. Single payer is far more complicated politically to implement.

I would be a lot more inclined to send money if single payer just had a seat at the table. Or if there was an actual bill that I could read that was complete. even the single payer bills in congress are just outlines. There is any flesh on those outlines at this point.