[lbo-talk] Cloward-Piven strategy for single payer?

[Carrol Cox]

What you get out of mass movements is always less than you ask. Hence
single-payer, if that is what you want, can only be achieved by a mass
movement that demands  MUCH MORE thjan that: Something like national
Health Service plus living wage for the disabled plus a few other bells
and whistles. And don't worry about implementation: that occurs as the
proposals get worried and savaged in the legislative process. Thinking
about them now makes clear political thought difficult.

Carrol

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> On Mar 22, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, but single payer could actually happen.
> >>
> >
> > When could it actually happen?
> 
> Damned if I know, but it's conceivable in a way that a total, NHS-
> style nationalization isn't. E.g., through the universalization of
> Medicare.
> 
> Doug
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