The vast and perhaps insurmountable obstacle to a "Medicare-for-all" system is Big Insurance and its success in buying politicians of all affiliations. Big Insurance stands to lose its $600B-a-year business model if the US were to truly provide universal healthcare, and you can be certain that they will expend whatever it takes to protect that stake.

But the current set of proposals are exactly what insurers want, as they will entice or force Americans to continue to purchase usurious policies that bedevil providers with paperwork, cut patients off when neediest, and preserve the lifestyles to which Big Insurance has become accustomed.

It's high time for US citizens -- and particularly the physicians guild -- to make it clear that nothing short of a single-party "Medicare-for-all" system will be acceptable.

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