We re doing better in some ways and worse in others. The single-payer idea has much more support within the medical profession particularly the academic medical profession than ever before. One survey showed that 56 percent of all medical students, residents, and medical school faculty supported single payer. So it s become a much more majoritarian view in a lot of quarters. And I think the level of popular discontent with the health care business is incredibly high.
People really think the health care system is broken.
But we re really stymied by the fact that the candidates have been so quiet on it. It s hard for us to mobilize when not one of them is raising the issue. And that helps make it start to feel real and important.