California’s Democratic state Senate passed a single-payer bill on Thursday. For the first time, a majority of the Democratic caucus in the federal House has endorsed a bill for national single-payer. On Fox News in March, pundit Charles Krauthammer predicted that Trump-era Republican politicians would inadvertently produce national single-payer within seven years. But where a single-payer system really suffers is the lack of choice and competition,” he said. One in April found that 43 per cent of Republicans supported “creating a federally funded health insurance system that covered every American,” against 44 per cent opposed.

Source: thestar June 03, 2017 21:11 UTC