Would Hillary's single payer healthcare be just like the VA?

It would extend medicare to 50 or 55 yr. olds but they'd have to pay a premium. Everyone else would still be stuck in the Obamacare morass. No one is addressing how much the premiums would be, if supplemental insurance would be needed like most of those on regular medicare have, or about finding a doctor who will accept what medicare will pay for services. To me it's a massive problem with no one giving a viable solution.

Not if Congress has a say - those medical insurance companies are going to be fighting thru' the Congressional lobbyists to see this never happens - as will the AMA, I expect. Not even Hillary will make that large a change - reform Obamacare is likely but the rest is decades away.

Hillary doesn't support single payer healthcare, she made that clear in the primary election against Sanders. Now that she wants to pull in Sanders supporter votes she doesn't reject universal healthcare as openly.

When people talk about that they refer to Medicare. Single payer means you pay the government monthly premiums, not your insurance company. I doubt that would get passed by Congress because of insurance industry lobbying against it. Hillary says all kinds of things. Obama tried to get government health insurance approved for long term care and couldnt. And also proposed Medicare for people over 55 and that didnt pass.

Will never happen. Hillary's a certified corporate lobbyist and coffee gal.

Any serious healthcare reform proposal will enhance and/or maintain the profitability of the "healthcare" industry. ($$$)

(if you were smart, you would know this)

It's not a fair comparison bc the patient population that the VA serves is sicker and poorer than the general population is

The government deciding who gets healthcare and who doesn't.

Who could be against that?

Name me one thing that the government has run that has NOT turned into a disaster like the VA.

She has never favored single payer. She wants a public option.

Medicare.