"The critics who cry nationalization are not really arguing about economics. They are arguing about whether there is still a place in our political imagination for the idea that some spaces belong to everyone and cannot be allowed to become the exclusive property of whoever can extract the most profit from them."

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/05/opinion/canada-avi-lewis-public-options-nationalization

#CanadianPolitics #CanPol #PublicOption

@RebelGeek99 And: my understanding is that #Obamacare was a fallback position to avoid the #PublicOption, which in turn had been a fallback position to avoid #SinglePayer — the only thing that anyone should consider acceptable.

Not only the Republicans are our enemies; so are nearly all the Democrats.

So I like Avi's Public Option proposals. I like them alot actually. But I've seen some people point out the fed-prov responsibilities would likely interfer with that.

Do we just... Make a Healthcare Act + [x public option] transfers for public Grocers and Telecom? (Framework federally, adminstered provincally). Has he said somewhere on how he plans to make that happen yet? #NDP #CanPoli #canada #publicoption #avilewis

Here is where the top Democrats for California Governor stand on Universal Healthcare:

SWALWELL: Supports a public option

PORTER: Supports single-payer health care

STEYER: Support single-payer health care

BECERRA: Supports single-payer health care

THURMOND: Supports single-payer health care

YEE: Supports single-payer health care

VILLARAIGOSA: Supports a public option

https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/california-governor-single-payer-health-care/

#California #universalHealthCare #singlepayer #publicoption

"But with the money that we DO have, guess where it's going! Paying for-profit clinics more than public hospitals! This gets to what is wrong with our healthcare system! It's not that it's a public system, it's that we have provincial governments like in #Ontario with #DougFord that are trying to make it more American" (more private)

https://youtu.be/an711iGhL1A

#Canada #Ontario #DougFord #HealthCare #PublicOption #PublicHealthCare