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Related: About this forumHillary 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
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
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EmperorHasNoClothes
(4,797 posts)1. No, no, she supports universal Healthcare now
Or... Wait, what day of the week is it?
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)2. I heard her say that last night too
Still don't believe it
DanTex
(20,709 posts)3. Always has.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)5. ROFL!
onecaliberal
(32,888 posts)4. She changes positions on it almost daily now. No exaggeration.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)6. Six cents a word website says something. nt