On Sep 20, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> But the discussion has been about whether medicare for all is within the "realm of possibility" under the existing system.
Well it's a lot more likely than my being able to walk on water, for sure. But for it to happen, the labor movement would have to get behind it in a major way (among several other things). If SEIU showed anything like the support for single-payer that it routinely shows for campaigning for Democrats - as I recall, they flooded Pennsylvania alone with 15,000 campaign workers in 2008 - then the balance of forces would change considerably. But, really, can you see anything like that happening in the next several years? They're about to put everything into campaigning for a bunch of suckass Democrats in 2010. Then, they'll pause a bit, and start campaigning for suckass Dems in 2012.
Doug