The U.S. is headed toward a single-payer system of universal health care.At the same time we're seeing single-payer systems England and Canada failing?
Not likely.
Corporations are sick of paying high cost of health care, though. They do wield influence.
IMHO, I am in complete agreement with the idea that the US is spiraling towards a single-payer system. I think this is horrible and dangerous, but I think it's inevitable unless major changes happen in the cost and availability of health insurance.
It is becoming almost impossible for the middle to lower income self-employed individuals to keep health insurance. In fact, as a CPA, I don't have a single self-employed client in this range that actually has a health policy for their family. In fact, at the current rates of premium increase, in a very short period of time, health insurance will be unaffordable for any family that makes under $80,000 per year. That is most of the deep South. This is the swing section of the US politically.
To just blow this problem off is dangerous and the equivalent to sticking our heads deep in the sand.
One example of this problem is from a story that a friend of mine wrote on-line in a web site that he has devoted to discussing this issue - http://healthcarebeware.com/one-uninsured-family.html
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