[nickcarraway]

But single payer will not happen. this is it. It just unravels from here.

If ACA fails, we get single payer. It's a lose/lose proposition. And most U.S. people don't have a clue how bad it is, and never will.

[dagogo redux]

I don’t see how single payer will work if the doctors won’t. (Unless we cut to Doctor Zhivago, mid-movie.)

I and every other doc I know has an exit plan. It’s over unless someone repeals this law, and quickly.

[stanne]

Single payer will happen, perhaps, but it will be much more of a fiasco than this, and with very very little health care for anyone.

[9YearLurker]

If MA continues to be the bellwether, it looks like you’re right:

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/03/carr_no_need_to_pay_any_money

[cynwoody]

If ACA fails, we get single payer.

If single payer is the endpoint, what do we need a United States of America for?

Let it go the way of the USSR!

[DB]

Well, my bet is this has poisoned the single payer well for the Dems. Single payer is only more government involvement and the already added involvement has pissed off a lot of people. I doubt many will see the solution as being more of the same. But I could be wrong...