Originally Posted by
hkkmr
Congress will pass single payer when the people want it. And the vast majority of people will want it within 25-50 years at most, when they have to pay $500 dollar a person for premiums and Medicare is bankrupt. There are different ways to skin this cat, but ultimately price control and proper regulation needs to happen to skyrocketing health care costs. Most of the boomers will be dead, and most of the current and next generation will be totally unprotected unless comprehensive overhaul of the system occurs. They'll get to sit in the waiting room hell of the uninsured except nobody is coming to check on them. Hopefully that will get people to consider this issue without all the stupid political grandstanding.
In this kind of bust scenario, most people will likely lose all but basic and limited benefits, and maybe that's the way it needs to be for people to be rational about health. Which include taking care of it, eating well and the proper preventive cares necessary to stay healthy.