For the first time in 3 decades

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by icenine

Single payer would more expensive and involve new taxes on the middle class than most people know. You are talking about a major social engineering project that would redefine American and make Obama look like a conservative.

I could live with it but will America?

You never know. There can be a dynamic to events in which what seems impossible suddenly becomes possible. Then it's 'an idea whose time has come.'

But someone has to be pushing a positive program. You can't beat something with nothing--that's how the Republicans lost against Obamacare.