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From my vantage point in the US, it does seem like a significant number of young people do want change. I'm basing this on the contrast between Bernie Sanders s
by xlm1717 11y ago
From my vantage point in the US, it does seem like a significant number of young people do want change. I'm basing this on the contrast between Bernie Sanders supporters, largely young people, and Hillary Clinton supporters, who have a lot less young people than Bernie supporters. As for what change young people want today, I'd say it's what Bernie is campaigning for, which does include health care but also free college for all, among other things that primarily concern young people.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoAs I said, they believe this "change" will happen mainly by funneling more money into existing programs...
- newman314 11y agoHow do? Single payer is not a existing program today.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Single payer is not a existing program today. Sanders explicitly says that his "single payer" plan is "Medicare for all". Medicare is an existing program. It hasn't been a single-payer system for quite a long time, though; it has been -- longer than the ACA has been around -- a lot like a federalized, rather than state-based, version of the ACA with subsidized private plans but with a public default option.
- newman314 11y agoMedicare for all is more of a sound bite. A proper single payer system would not have Medicare broken down into part A,B etc. It would be end to end covering diagnosis, treatment, drugs etc.