[lbo-talk] how to work for Wal-Mart

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

> It's partly that hard fought lesson that has led most health care reformers 
> to concentrate on measures to expand coverage for those without coverage --  
> which does have overwhelming support -- and which doesn't make people with 
> existing coverage fear losing it.  You can argue that the present system is 
> inefficient and so on, and I won't disagree, but I want children to stop 
> dying because they didn't have basic preventive care and help families get 
> coverage.   And most advocates see step-by-step expansion as a far more 
> likely success than a massive conversion to single payer all at once.
> 
> Nathan Newman

Most advocates for fair share type schemes see step-by-step as the most likely way. Most advocates of 
single-payer do not necessarily agree with that.

Let's look at the lessons taught to us by other countries that have single payer. How incremental was its 
implementation compared to what fair share bills propose? The places that have single payer systems did 
not arrive at there in a piece-meal fashion like you are proposing. Granted they are different countries with 
different dynamics but to ignore how others succeeded is short-sighted.

John Thornton