Paul Starr in Politico says it yet again:
“Not only would Americans need to trust government to be more efficient; they would also need to trust government to take over one-sixth of the economy and make good decisions about nearly every aspect of health care. Single-payer, after all, means concentrating power as well as payment.”
And again:
“The passage of the ACA illustrates just how difficult it is to bring about institutional change in the United States. These difficulties are not just the devious work of Wall Street and other big business interests; they’re the result of the checks and balances in our constitutional system, the reservations many Americans have about grand schemes for change and the deep racial and class divisions in American society. You can’t blame everything on Wall Street, as emotionally satisfying as that may be.”
And he ends it by pointing out that we’re electing a President who will actually get things done. We’ve already sent a message.