This is why I said Obamacare set back America at least four decades. Look, single payer is coming, just like social security.
But in the horrible roll out of Obamacare single payer, as you call it, was tacked on to be given a bad name.
It works, it works fine here.
I have NEVER had a conversation on this with an American who didn't have a long list of lies and myths about the Canadian system. The right in America has to be the most mis-informed group of people on the planet on this issue.
The " Right " in America knew from the beginning that Obama-Care was going to be a disaster, we didn't believe the lies and the BS, we were informed.
The people who were mis-informed were the useful idiots and the naive who bought into the Democrat narrative that our system was broken to begin with. The people that believed they could keep their doctor and insurance if they liked them, that believed that it was a " free-market solution ", that believed that it was going to make Healthcare " affordable ".
ObamaCare isn't a horrible law because of its roll out. It's a disaster because its was written by foolish people who gave no intelligent consideration to it's consequences. By people who could care less how destructive it's become because they're more loyal to a ideology than they are to the truth.
Lies about Single payer are one thing, but what about the lies Obama and the Democrat party fed to the average American ? ObamaCare has had a substantial impact on our economy and the cost of healthcare. Premiums and out of pocket expenses and deductibles have shot up exponentially and are still rising.
ObamaCare's cost increases are targeted at the Middle-class, the shrinking Middle-class. Poor get free healthcare and the rich can afford the cost increases.
Why do American Conservatives oppose Single Payer ? It's not because we're uninformed, on the contrary. We're intelligent enough to know that Single payer here would turn into a corrupt poorly run cluster **** with no chance of real oversight, just like the VA. There would be ZERO recourse for the American consumer.
Dont believe me ? Name ONE VA official or Politician that was held accountable for allowing veterans to languish on hidden waiting list for years without treatment. Just one.
Any legitimate criticism or accusations of corruption or mismanagement of Single Payer system in the US would be either ignored outright or countered as a politicized " witch hunt " meant to take healthcare away from the American people. No matter how expensive, how unsustainable or how damaging it was to our economy it would be hailed a " great success ", as progress.
Oversight investigations into corruption and or mismanagement would be met with lies, stonewalling and or 5th amendment pleas. No, we sure as hell don't need Single payer here.