Originally Posted by
Craig4
This is a "we're not ready for it" fail. Let a candidate who advocates for "keep your private insurance but here's Medicare if you need it" proceed and let people gradually conclude Medicare for all is better. Maybe we will adopt a system like most of Western Europe. Just don't risk four more years of Trump over it.
I have a feeling that Warren's plan to eliminate private insurance and force everyone immediately into single payer may be a fatal flaw, politically, if not in implementation. Americans do not like to be forced to do much of anything. Fore example, the mandatory purchase of insurance in the ACA was probably its least popular feature. People who have good insurance plans will certainly be very unhappy at being forced into what they will likely perceive, rightly or wrongly, to be the inferior government plan. I suspect Warren will have a lot of difficulty getting her plan approved by even a Democrat controlled Congress. An opt-in type of plan will likely get us to single payer over time, as many employers will decide that they do not need to offer a full health insurance plan.