...how it would help the economy. All they could do is admitt that they are more beholding to the insurance lobby than the American people.

Offer Medicare for all as an option (ramp up the infrastructure) create a federal exchange open to everyone (for the transition) and move up the date for state waivers (benefit to states like Vermont).

This would be the fastest route.

drop like a rock but that is one reason repukes wont hear of it.
They want people suffering and at the whim of employers.

at the state level might be the stepping stone. At least it's an opportunity for the feds to shine and move closer to single payer, maybe even in those very states.

Makes sense to me, but Washington, D.C. likes to be the reverse Robin Hood and funnel money to the rich. It loves reverse socialism.

I'm hoping that the several/many Republican Governors who are refusing to implement the exchanges, thus leaving the Feds to do so for them, don't realize they are helping to get there sooner.

Certainly, they are not that stupid?

Or maybe they really recognize the benefits of universal, single payer, and this is how they get the country there while still maintaining their public opposition.

and cut the cost of health care out of products and services.

therapies that have been empirically established as efficacious TO THE PATIENT.

Cut out the wall between conventional coverage and parity for Mental Health and also Dental coverage.