I feel for you. Really. We're already having to fight with her insurer.
I am a disabled veteran and have Medicare...it is worlds better than any private insurance I have EVER had.
No, we cannot have single payer, to our eternal shame.
Do you want to know why?
Because the Democratic Party of today does not have the cojones to stand up and FIGHT for it. They say "the political will for it isn't there," meaning that they haven't got the guts to stand up to the GOP smear machine and the "Blue Dogs," who should be Republicans anyway.
They make noble-seeming gestures to get Republicans on board 
like the ACA leaving Big Insurance in charge, and it still does not cover everyone.
They are scared of the Limbaugh/Fux Noise smear machine and don't want to be labelled as "socialists."
No, they will not run on single-payer in 2014...if ever.
The only way we are going to get single-payer is to revolt.
By that I mean refusing to pay medical bills and exorbitant insurance costs to make the non-system collapse...I've already started on that.
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