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In reply to the discussion: Warren: The Next Step For Dems Is Single-Payer Health Care [View all]stephensolomita
(91 posts)53. Basically in Agreement with LiberalLug
I supported a single-payer system way back when Bill Clinton was President. Not because I thought it could pass, but because I believed - and still believe - that it can easily be understood in terms of costs and benefits. And because it's so easily understood, it would have informed the debate going forward. Single payer or the current system, which do you want? Keep in mind, nobody remembers a single word of Bill Clinton's proposal.
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Amen!!!! And insurance companies have offered to implement if outsourced to them.
bresue
Jun 2017
#2
Best case is Tweak ACA and improve on it with people** paying premiums to NON-profit Medicaid &
Sunlei
Jun 2017
#59
Apologize for what? They didn't have the votes in 2008. The blue dogs refused to support single
still_one
Jun 2017
#14
where have you been getting that talking point from, the Jill Stein campaign? Every single Democrat
still_one
Jun 2017
#28
Bullshit. They didn't have the votes in 2008 for single-payer, and they don't have them today
still_one
Jun 2017
#32
Time to stop talking crap about voters who didn't support Clinton, and start asking why
LiberalLovinLug
Jun 2017
#42
Nope. This is like the talking point that "Hillary should just go away", but of course it is
still_one
Jun 2017
#46
You may want to ask yourself why people who didn't support and vote for our Democratic candidate
lunamagica
Jun 2017
#56
President Obama did the ACA because they didn't have the votes for single payer, a public option, or
still_one
Jun 2017
#10
You are wrong. Lieberman made it very clear that he would not support even a buy-in for Medicare
still_one
Jun 2017
#18
President Obama did it through Reid and others in Congress. It would NOT have mattered. They didn'
still_one
Jun 2017
#34
In California where I live it is not a sure thing. It is on hold right now in the State
still_one
Jun 2017
#35
YES! I'm tired of this crap. If the GOP is going to push this sort of cruelty...I think the people
Honeycombe8
Jun 2017
#25
If we're going to run on Single Payer, She should introduce it in the Senate.
rogue emissary
Jun 2017
#33