jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
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> 40 years of being told how much a piece-mean program is the only viable way have taken its toll. There is
> nothing wrong or unrealistic about saying single-payer or nothing. What is unrealistic is to look at the
> failures of a piece-meal approach and the successful implementation of single-payer type programs
> everywhere else in the world and still insist that piece-meal is the only way.
Yes.
I doubt this thread is going anyplace. I think Michael Hoover's phrase from C. Wright Mills is on target -- "crackpot realism." The assumption that "small steps" are always more "realistic" than big steps is pure dogma, with no empirical basis whatever in human history or experience.
Carrol