RI legislature considering single-payer healthcare

[Blue3]

http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180124/universal-health-care-campaign-ramps-up-in-ri

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

[dead0man]

Vermont's is going great!

[TDAS04]

If they can accomplish that, that would be nice.  It's something the entire nation needs. 

[Pyro]

Single-payer needs to be instituted on a national level.

[Indy Texas]

Rhode Island, with its declining population, stagnant GSP, and small size, seems like a uniquely bad place to do this.

[Cashew]

Single-payer Medicare for all needs to be instituted on a national level.

[Strudelcutie4427]

Worked great in Vermont... This goes nowhere

[TheSaint250]

Worked great in Vermont... This goes nowhere

[Mr. Smith]

Single-payer needs to be instituted on a national level.

San Francisco manages just fine.

[Sumner 1868]

RI has some very conservative Democrats in its legislature. It would be hard to work around them.

[Mike Thick]

Rhode Island, with its declining population, stagnant GSP, and small size, seems like a uniquely bad place to do this.

This, although I would tack on “terrible state-level political climate”

[Sir Mohamed]

I wish we could just pass single-payer nationally in 2021.

[KingSweden]

Rhode Island, with its declining population, stagnant GSP, and small size, seems like a uniquely bad place to do this.

Yes, this. Plenty of other things they could do to make healthcare more affordable/universal, though. Universal care doesn’t *have* to be single payer.

[PoliticalShelter]

Implementing single payer is going to be difficult for the Democrats at whatever level of government, the simple reason that America still has a pre-dominantly employment based healthcare system, which creates lots of winners who going to be quite hostile to any attempt to change the healthcare system.

Until the employment system breaks down in America, single payer will be a difficult battle for the Democrats.