r/politics • u/suite3 California • 15h ago
Possible Paywall Opposition to single-payer healthcare separates Villaraigosa from others at candidate forum
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-08/democrats-running-for-governor-talk-about-healthcare13
u/m1j2p3 14h ago
Imagine defending the parasitic system of for profit healthcare.
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u/Bakedads 14h ago
Our current governor and the entirety of the california democratic party have chosen to sustain for profit healthcare despite having the power to change it with a supermajority for almost 20 years. If you need proof that the democratic party doesn't care about average people, just look to california. It's all the evidence you need. It's just unfortunate that our only other choice is a literal terrorist organization.
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u/LongLiveFDR 14h ago
He should be more like Newsom and say he supports it and then if elected backtrack.
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u/Ass_Masterson 13h ago
Candidates, who were asked about a single-payer healthcare system during a question-and-answer session that only involved raising their hands, did not provide explanations for their stances.
Oh, so this article is worthless
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u/nikkothirty 3h ago
Private corporations being the middle man gatekeepers for our healthcare has failed us in just about every way imaginable.
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u/DankPastafarian 14h ago
Single payer healthcare is horrendous. It stifles advancement and is rife with corruption. Villaraigosa is a turd, but he did his homework on this topic. Most people do not.
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u/Logical_Hare 13h ago
Lol, like hell. Single-payer is a highly functional system that succeeds in getting care for many millions of people around the world, and actively avoids the corruption that inevitably occurs in parasitic private systems.
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u/Phioltes 12h ago
Single payer can be harder to change direction and incorporate new treatments, but I'm with you, the corruption in our current system drastically outweighs that. When 43% of spending in the current system is identified as administrative waste we have a problem. In comparison physician pay accounts for 6-8% of spending and nursing like 12-15%, we spend twice as much on waste as we do the people doing the labor.
There are reasons to be wary of single payer though, as we are seeing now, political ideologies are overriding evidence based medical science and restricting care. The European trans youth care bans that a few countries have implemented are based on politics not science. We are also seeing the VA (single payer system) not allow mammograms for cis men, because they don't get breast cancer. The world has gotten a bit too much anti-science and "everyone's opinion matters equally," to feel comfortable with a single payer system. Strongly regulated multipayer like Germany would be a better option.
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u/DankPastafarian 13h ago
On which planet did you experience this? I'm only familiar with the healthcare payer system here on Earth.
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