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Originally Posted by dc_dux
I dont think we will be seeing a universal single payer system anytime soon in the US...the will is just not there, as relfected in some responses here.
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Unlike the rest of us, you have a direct line on the general will, yes?
Your post takes the "sober realist/reformist" stance, but what is so realistic about employer based plans in this economy? Old industrial capital (GM, Ford) wants out of company welfare schemes, and the New Economy firms (*$, Walmart) never had them in the first place. Employer based schemes aren't going to get off the ground unless workers have more power vis-a-vis capital. However, if workers did have more power, given the experiences of the past 30 years, why would they settle for the same broken arrangements? Health care is one area where gentle reform is completely utopian.