I know it has been made into a partisan issue, but providing a national healthcare system that allows everyone to receive care regardless of their individual ability to pay really isn't a partisan issue. In a single payer system the people providing services get paid so that the people that need it receive it. It satisfies sensibilities on both sides of the aisle.
The only people that stand to lose are the one that rake in money hand over fist on the inequitable private insurance system. The Affordable Care Act addressed some of the issues with our system but doesn't go far enough. Part of the job of government is to provide for the general welfare of the people. Implementing a system that provides all of us with the care we need and all of the professionals that provide the services compensation is not a government over reach like many conservatives try to claim. Both the preamble & the taxes & spending clauses of the U.S. Constitution mention providing for the general welfare of the people.
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