>>>There's little agreement here on what to do.
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>>Because of the impossibility of how. Whoever proposes single payer solution is immediately accused of socialism,
>That's not a "how" disagreement.
>There's a wide gap here on what should be done.

I meant to expand that paragraph with other possible solutions, which would be shouted down by equal speed and clamor, but it's a sunday and I got lazy :).

Every "what" that comes up is measured for feasibility - not in practical terms, but in terms of whether it could gain some kind of majority. And they all receive equally low guesstimates, just like oCare was getting initially. And seeing how that one changed both by dilution and sidetracking, anyone can imagine what would happen to any other proposal.

So... I think oCare was passed only as a stop-gap measure, to show that it will cost even more (even if it works in some respect). That factor (costing even more) is actually what made it pass.