Because that's the key to this whole thing. Short of that, it's an ambitious campaign promise with no path to acomplishment.

If you read/listen to his speeches he is the first to say "I can;t do this alone. It isn't only about me." And then goes on to tell people they have to get involved and elect people who will represent them...etc.

planning on major advances in healthcare coverage this next term, making medications affordable, etc., moving closer to single payer. And all they get from this crowd is literally hundreds of defeatist posts about how that will be a complete and tragic failure.

I'd say they should go eat worms, but of course they'll be benefiting right along with everyone else, no doubt still complaining bitterly about a lost shining world "made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

That's pretty basic, and should have been done many years ago...even though it never gets done, that's one there is clearcut public support for, with no real controversy.

I'll skip the worm diet (although I've been told they are nutritious) but you can count me in as a member of "this crowd" of pissed off people.

The ACA is NOT moving towards single payer. It went in the opposite direction, by further entrenching the insurance companies. That's what "they" (including me) are so pissed off and disappointed by. All of the baroque formulas for targeted maybe possibly partial tax credits, qualification for some obscure mousehole qualification for some otehr form of partial maybe subsidy....It's all just a distraction that is making the ridiculous complexity worse.

A public option would be a step in the right direction. Nice and straightforward and nion-threatening. But the Democratic power structure (including the Clinton campaign and surrogates) have decided that is just too hard. Giving people a choice many would welcome is too hard to fight for.

A third to half of all Americans oppose to fanatically oppose what both Hillary and Bernie want to do. Pretending otherwise is not just dishonest, it's dangerously foolish.

It is okay, it's great even, to fight for 100% right now. But preferring to sneer at the really important advances Hillary supports as nothing, if they were all that could be achieved against great resistance from the right, IMO is not just callous and unprincipled, it's really dumb.

BTW, you guys do realize that at least a few of those you're standing shoulder-to-shoulder with now will be heading to the right to join those fighting to destroy the ACA if Bernie doesn't win the primary?

Maybe be a little reasonable? How about Hillary's as a fall-back plan tucked into a back pocket of your mind -- just in case it turns out you can't have everything this time around? Bernie isn't isn't going to lose if people don't send constant absolute-conviction vibes into the ether. It doesn't work that way.

The Republicans are truly awful. Supporting the Democrats is the only firewall there is against those clowns and crooks and despots. That will be the case in November, as always, if it's Clinton vs. GOP (fill in the blank Republican Dickhead)

Doesn't mean I have to like it, or express support for the determination of the Democrats to be the Party of Nothing Else that it has become.

Goodnight.

Goodnight

And here is one example.
There are several.

for the US far the F++k extreme socialist democrats (like FDR) ....commie f**kers
super left wing socialist democrats == lefty of center democrats
extreme left democrats == democrats central
democrats with good social conservatism == democrats
democrats == republicans lite
conservative democrats == tea partiers
republicans == germans during 1938
tea partiers == SIEG HEIL!

see how easy it works

The public option failed even with 60 in the senate and a house majority.

The GOP is clear -- "We going to kill Obamacare, and let the market run healthcare." Maybe they will, maybe they won't. But that's what they are aiming at, and selling and trying in a direct way.

The Democrats have never been clear. Far too many of their eitehr agree with the GOP, or they say "Yes universal single payer is a good idea but we can't it because gosh gee whillikers the public will never accept that." And too gutless to even defend a public option on its merits, and work to convince the public that it would, simply offer them a choice.

Instead the only strategy is "No we can't."

If that continues guess who definitely WILL win in the long run.....Gimme a G, gimme an O, giomme a P....

Obamacare is a ticking time bomb already exploding. This shows just one of the reasons, but there is lots more.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/27/obamacares-big-overhead-costs-to-top-270b.html

Your approach leaves millions with no insurance.

An incremental approach is not going to fix this huge problem.

Single Payer is a no-brainer:

1. Lowers our labor costs.
2. Saves people money.
3. Covers everyone.

Just like impeachment was.