With Democrats claiming that the government has shut down because Republicans don’t want to deal with health care, it’s time for a reminder that if Democrats really want to provide subsidized health care to people who think that’s a good idea, they don’t need Republicans to do that:
If the UK can implement a single-payer health care system, so can the Democratic Party.
This isn’t something that would have been feasible a generation ago. But technology now makes it easy to collect the money and pay the bills. The participants don’t have to share geographical areas. They just have to share a vision — a vision in which they pool their resources and use them to provide ‘free’ health care to any registered Democrat.
That is, every registered Democrat could have access to a single-payer system by the end of the year, if they would just give up the idea of dragging along a bunch of other people who don’t want what they want, and who will take any opportunity to sabotage their efforts to set that system up using government.
They could have that up and running in a month. What Democratic voters need to do is call their Democratic representatives and ask: What the hell are you waiting for?
