Ralph Nader on Single-Payer Healthcare

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[nowellian]

The majority of Americans have supported single payer universal health care like in Europe for decades.

In our elections the only candidates talking about what most people support are said to be unelectable.

Our corporate run elections are the joke!

Let Nader debate Obama and McCain!

[PassTheSalt008]

I'm for a single payer system. Absolutely.

[LiberalJerseyman]

I love how Nader was talking about a single-payer system in 2000, while the other candidate were busy debating stupid things.

[thereinliestherib]

@hellraiserheights What absurd propaganda. You gotta be one indoctrinated fool to look at the obesity problem in America, and its direct causal correlation with rising cost curves, and blame the problem on mythical private conspiracies. Obamacare does nothing to decrease costs through personal accountability, virtually guaranteeing increases in private revenues and worsening health stats. Go to your local Walmart and find me a half dozen healthy people in the entire store grounds. Honestly.

[hellraiserheights]

@thereinliestherib While it is counted among the reasons, "abysmal national health" is not the primary reason for the expensiveness of our health care system. It's a combination of factors ranging from the business model of market health insurance to the incentives for "over-care". A public system, with the profit motive absent, accountable to the public, with low administrative costs would insure the whole of the public while reducing the percentage of health spending in the greater economy.

[thereinliestherib]

@hellraiserheights Yes, but covering individuals from the liability for their own actions only encourages bad behavior and negligence, which is the primary why our HC is already so expensive (abyssmal national health). I fail to see how laying that burden on easy-target populations (whether its the "rich," or the young/healthy, as Obamacare does) fixes anything. A much better system would be freer consumer choice, taxes on unhealthy products/services, and rates adjusted to personal health.

[hellraiserheights]

@thereinliestherib

Do not equate those who care for social justice with Democrats. Democrats, like Republicans, are shills for market fundamentalist ideas that promote an unhealthy societal stratification. Under a Single-Payer system, the costs of medical care wouldn't fall to the healthy, they would fall to the wealthy in a correct, progressive system of taxation. Needless and wasteful private bureaucracy would be eliminated as a public program operates under lower administrative costs.

[thereinliestherib]

@hellraiserheights When you become a lawyer, my ass. A lawyer would understand that individual's have rights transcending majoritarian tyranny. Such as when a massive HC industry finances democrats to go out and force the cost liability for an obese, smoking, abyssmally unhealthy population onto the young and healthy, especially students like yourself. You're against your own practical interests and basic rights. You're either perfect for law school, or perfectly wrong for it, LOL.

[emildmello]

Actually, Obama supports single-payer health insurance / Medicare for all.

[dave777blaster]

Ralph Nader an All American Hero

those who continually vote for the pretty faces Clinton Bush and Obama will find that they have elected empty shells.

Americans are their own worse enemy it have been proven at the polls time and again.