they need crisis in order to bring things about they could never normally get done, and they need a ton f people screaming for them to do somethig.
they will pitch single payer as simpler because govt will be the only payer. so the system will be a lot simpler, we will be told.
if there are any fixes now, it’s to get the govt part of it working, not the private insurers parts.
They need crisis, yes, but not from something that they proposed. The crisis hypothesis only works if the crisis is perceived as the result of the opponent’s fault; for example, the 2008 crisis was (perceived ) as caused by Wall Street greeds made possible by Republican policies. So, it made sense when the Dhims then came with an alternative policy to deal with the crisis. It doesn’t work when the crisis is caused by their own policy.