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FreakinDJ

(17,644 posts)
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 10:30 PM Feb 2016

Hillary Clinton's War on Universal Healthcare Is a War on the Middle Class

Hillary Clinton is not being honest with voters. She is on the campaign trail banging the drum of fighting for the middle class in a tight party race against Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, another champion of the middle class. Clinton is on the road saying that she is the candidate that will save the middle class from ruin if under the control of a Republican presidency. She is fighting to prove she is electable while telling voters Sanders is not, despite countless polls that suggest otherwise.

However, Clinton has made it her campaign policy to speak out vocally against single-payer health care. Single payer, or more widely known as universal health care, would save middle-class families roughly $5,000 a year on average, according to the plan Bernie Sanders has put forward.

It does this by removing health care premiums and all deductibles and replaces it with a flat payroll tax that both employers and employees pay into.

Sanders has proposed 6.2 percent payroll tax paid by employers and a 2.2 percent increase on employees. Some opponents have attacked this as a raise in taxes on the already struggling middle-class Americans without taking into account that monthly premiums and all deductibles on doctor or hospital visits would be eliminated.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-arel/hillary-clintons-war-on-u_b_9080772.html

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Hillary Clinton's War on Universal Healthcare Is a War on the Middle Class (Original Post) FreakinDJ Feb 2016 OP
No, no, she supports universal Healthcare now EmperorHasNoClothes Feb 2016 #1
I heard her say that last night too FreakinDJ Feb 2016 #2
Always has. DanTex Feb 2016 #3
ROFL! CharlotteVale Feb 2016 #5
She changes positions on it almost daily now. No exaggeration. onecaliberal Feb 2016 #4
Six cents a word website says something. nt onehandle Feb 2016 #6
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