>I don't like the biased coverage and disrespect meted out to Trump and haven't hesitated to say so. But I've also said all along that I don't like Trump's policy wrt the ACA- even that HRC might be preferable on that point alone. However, by now I think Trump's advisors will see that tackling the ACA is taking a tiger by the tail and I'm hopeful we'll see a "special" sort of rollback or even some sophistry that would make the MSM proud. ;-)
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>I have to say that I am still uncomfortable with the idea of single payer. Unless things have changed drastically in England in the last 18 years, IIRC, it was just a way of rationing health care. It was a great scheme if you were suffering from something that was life threatening but not so much otherwise. I told you about Andy's slipped knee cap in 1999. If he would have had to wait for the NHS to take care of it, he would have had to wait about 2 years since it wasn't life threatening. It did not matter to the NHS that he was in pain 24/7 because of the condition and had no quality of life. They expected him to live in excruciating pain for 2 years before they would even think about fixing it. Fortunately, Andy was able to afford private health insurance and so was able to get it taken care of outside of the NHS. Is there some point in keeping a dog and then barking yourself? Why did he have to pay a huge percentage of his earnings to support the NHS and still need to purchase private insurance just in case the NHS was not available to deal with his health issues? Do you understand why I have a problem with single payer?

Maybe I don't understand what single payer means, but Medicare, as I understand it, is a single payer system.
Even my rightest of right-wing buddies love Medicare.

On the other hand, I get some of my care from the VA.
There are waits of 6 months for some procedures.
Except for treatment of wounds, which require special skills, I'd like to see the VA health system abolished and let the government help qualified vets pay for private insurance or Medicare.