Russell; I agree with your take on single-payer. On the other hand I look at it this way... I support single-payer as a step towards socialized healthcare.
Obama and the Democrats knew right from the start (of his campaigning) that he would have to find a way to use single-payer advocates to get elected and he also knew he would have to destroy the single-payer movement once elected in order to keep the country from moving left.
The Democrats got the AFL-CIO to get its think-tank, the Campaign for America's Future to kill the single-payer movement--- Roger Hickey wrote an entire book about doing this and the book was distributed by the thousands throughout the labor and progressive movements and all of a sudden... wallah, out of nowhere appeared this high-powered movement for "the public option."
Now, the left has an opening to begin a dialog on socialized healthcare; but, will the left take this opportunity? It doesn't look like it.
There is no better jobs creation program than socialized healthcare which would bring almost ten-million new jobs as opposed to single-payer with just under three-million jobs.
There are only two places to get get the money from to finance socialized healthcare:
1. The military budget.
2. Tax the rich.
We can't find a more appropriate program to convince people to put socialism on the table.
Peace = Healthcare + Jobs
Wars kill people and jobs.
Put these two slogans into the anti-war demonstrations coming up and flood the demonstrations with a leaflet explaining all of this.
To me it seems like common sense---
People want peace, people want healthcare and people want jobs... people aren't getting any of it because Wall Street wants profits.
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