Single Payer Healthcare vs. Corporate Greed

It’s so frustrating when you try to discuss alternatives to the current healthcare mess, and people push back with comments like, “Oh, no! That’s ‘socialized medicine’. We don’t want that!” No. What we don’t want is the debt-inducing nightmare that we have to deal with now. Would a single payer system really be that horrible? I don’t see how it can be any worse than the current system where families go broke, insurance companies get rich, doctors are caught in a budget squeeze, and emergency rooms are backed up with patients who can’t afford healthcare premiums. The single payer system works very well in France, Germany, Japan, the UK, and lots of other advanced, productive countries, none of which are $22 trillion in debt like we are. We could have something like that here, too, but the insurance companies, the drug companies, and the hospital conglomerates hate the idea for one simple reason: they won’t be able to make unlimited profits anymore. So, they brainwash people into thinking that single payer healthcare is a threat to democracy. It’s not. It’s a threat to corporate oligarchy.