I’m a conservative and generally very libertarian but I support government-funded healthcare for all. The current system of private insurance tends to benefit employees of larger companies, where premiums are more affordable. The self-employed and employees of small companies have a much harder time finding affordable insurance and are at the mercy of the Obamacare exchanges.
It’s inevitable and the logical solution would be to extend the Medicare coverage to everyone.
I’ve written here before that I regard maintaining the health of citizens, and therefore the workforce, is a necessity and among those essential services such as schools, roads and infrastructure in which government should have a central role in providing. We can argue about details, the ways and the means, but I am tired of hearing about the various “fixes” to the private insurance model typically proposed by Republicans.
I don’t know what Rand Paul’s views on the subject are, I assume he’s against it, but it is the Obamacare government subsidies to private insurance companies that he rages about. He has piles of research which he claims show huge profits by health insurance companies. A single payer system would cut out the insurance company middleman so he should he should certainly prefer it to the current system.
Not that I’d find too much Republican support, but polls are showing a growing number of voters will support single payer. Once in while the bitter partisans in Congress do get together and solve a problem but usually only in the midst of a crisis. That crisis is healthcare is coming eventually.
