Want National Health Insurance? Dump the Term ‘Single Payer’—and ‘Medicare for All’ Too | The Nation

Want National Health Insurance? Dump the Term ‘Single Payer’—and ‘Medicare for All’ Too | The 
Nation

".....no one I’ve ever interviewed in another country talks about their health systems in such narrow, self-interested terms as Americans do.

Changing the narrative won’t be easy. Americans don’t want their money used to pay for someone else’s insurance, although that kind of cross-subsidization is central to Medicare, a point that has never been made clear to beneficiaries or the general public.

....Half don’t want to pay for other people’s health care.

....changing the discourse around health insurance. Shifting the language to “guaranteed lifetime coverage for all” can’t help but push that change along."