If polling shows that a strong majority of Democrats support single-payer, what is the problem with coming on board?”But the road to single payer may be treacherous. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has described the Affordable Care Act as part of a slippery slope to government-run health care. The United States health care system is expensive and full of dysfunctions, making it susceptible to anti-establishment critiques. But when Republicans took control of the government this year, they found themselves unable to coalesce around a single health care plan. A splashy new health care proposal, with its own winners and losers and trade-offs, could reverse that political momentum, he said.

Source: New York Times September 11, 2017 20:03 UTC