What is preventing the U.S. from getting single-payer healthcare?

[ColbertWatcher]

Poll question: What is preventing the U.S. from getting single-payer healthcare?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. 1,3,4 and 5 are related.

[Uncle Joe]

Yes, as in, "Your uncle is also your dad." I would also add # 6 to that incestuous family. n/t

[leftstreet]

2. We are

We aren't camped out in front of Congressional offices, refusing to leave until they implement single payer.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. I'm going to add that in there. n/t

[Mojambo]

3. Rich fuckers who want to get richer. n/t

[AndyA]

5. The health care industry OWNS Congress.

Dick Durbin said it, and I think he was speaking the truth.

Many in Congress are compromised by their donors. We need to go to public financing of all elections, and do away with the lobbyists in Washington. Money still calls all the shots.

[ThomCat]

6. Thou Shalt Not Interfere With Corporate Profits!

The insurance industry refuses to be denied their share of any health care spending. They get to skim a very large percentage right off the top and they're not giving it up, no matter what.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. I'd like to see health insurance to go the way of slavery.

An industry no longer considered acceptable.

[harun]

13. No one ever asked for for-profit health insurers, an unethical scam from the beginning.

[ThomCat]

16. You are absolutely right. When accountants start making medical

decisions, and when medical decisions are made for profit rather than for the health of the patient, then it can only be a scam. There is no way it can be anything else. x(

[ThomCat]

15. I would love to see that too.

:applause:

[Warpy]

7. You forgot a long history of bribing Congress with fat contributions

combined with a steady propaganda campaign on corporate controlled media.

We're not getting it because we're not being told the truth and we're not being consulted.

[ColbertWatcher]

10. "we're not being told the truth and we're not being consulted" QFT. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Hand (Pharma/Insurance) meet Glove (Politicians on the payroll).

[ColbertWatcher]

11. So, what do you think the solution is to get us single-payer ASAP? n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. Vote out the politicians who won't sign on. Vote in pols who will.

Catch-22, however. The pols who would, won't get bribes..er, campaign funding, from the lobbyists and won't get elected because they don't have the money.

We could vote for politicians who would remove the corrupt system of campaign finance, and restore democrcy..but..the same Catch-22 applies.

Wishing upon a star would probably be just as effective.

[Salviati]

12. I'd say mostly it's the insurance co's...

I think in the last go-round it was all of big business in general, as they saw it as a way to lock in employees more powerfully than a good salary, but now the insurance co's are screwing them pretty hard too, so it seems to me that most big business sees a big upside in washing their hands of health care if at all possible...

[ColbertWatcher]

21. Very interesting. Thank you for posting. n/t

[frebrd]

14. Congresscritters have been....

bought and paid for by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries.

[rateyes]

17. I can only vote for one? I vote 1, 3, 4, 5, & 7.

[Vidar]

19. Corporate greed.

[Jack_DeLeon]

20. Well if we followed it, probably the Constitution...

nt

[ColbertWatcher]

25. I don't understand your statement.

Are you saying the U.S. Constitution is preventing US from getting single-payer healthcare?

If so, how so?

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. All of the above, but number one is the best answer

in a all of the above... now to the too hard to implement, only because we think it would be.

[kohodog]

23. The right wing spin machine, promoted by healthcare orgs and lobbyists

Same as climate change, they promote enough doubt and fear to make people afraid of change.

[Stinky The Clown]

24. I voted for "lack of political will"

none one, from bottom to top, has the guts to stand up to the Big 3 - Big Med, Big Pharma, and Big Insurance, and little Big, MedTech.