Hello Bob,   
      
    LL>> "When Barack Obama was asked to reform the healthcare   
    LL>> system, he rejected all of the models based on social   
    LL>> democratic proposals, as well as their American   
    LL>> `single-payer' equivalent, and instead went for insurance   
    LL>> reforms that were initially proposed by the (conservative)   
    LL>> Heritage Foundation.  There you see him rejecting   
      
   BK>Yup. That is also the pattern for most national health care   
   BK>systems in the industrialized countries. Which is why I   
   BK>supported it over single payer. However, I forgot, most other   
   BK>countries don't get hung up over individual objections, so don't   
   BK>have to worry about exemptions. Which makes single payer more   
   BK>attractive.   
      
   Now that the presidential election is over, with President Obama   
   easily winning re-election (the first Democrat since FDR to have   
   received over 50% of the popular vote for re-election), there   
   will be no repeal of the Affordable Care Act.  Every part will   
   be put in place, becoming an integral piece of the very fabric   
   of our society.   
      
   I expect this system will remain in place for about ten to fifteen   
   years, at which time America will then move forward to a single-payer   
   system.  This could be done using Medicare as a basis, the difference   
   being the new system would not be based on age.  Dennis Kucinich had   
   the right idea, being a man ahead of his time.  America was not quite   
   ready for that type of system, but is quickly moving in that direction.   
   As such, I view the Affordable Care Act as a transition from the old,   
   inefficient, and outdated healthcare for profit system we had been   
   using for decades to the brave new world of tomorrow.   
      
   If you love President Barack Obama, you'll want to marry future   
   President Andrew Cuomo.  :)   
      
   --Lee   
      
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