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Cleita

(75,480 posts)
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 01:06 PM Jan 2016

So Hillary admits we will never get a chance at passing single payer or Medicare for all

Last edited Fri Jan 22, 2016, 01:40 PM - Edit history (1)

if she's President because it's not "pragmatic". Another reason for me to vote for Bernie. He doesn't see it as impossible and frankly he doesn't have to pander to the for profit insurance, health care and pharma industries like every other one of the candidates both Republican and Democratic do.

Single payer is not an impossible dream. It's done in many of the industrial nations of the world including our neighbors to the north, Canada, and it works very well. It's the above mentioned insurance, health care and pharma industries have put a stopper in it in this country and as long as they are allowed to bully their way around our health care, their bought and paid for politicians will keep it from happening.

Stop voting for politicians at any level, who get money from any of the above mentioned industries, and put in those who will look at the greater good for everyone.

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So Hillary admits we will never get a chance at passing single payer or Medicare for all (Original Post) Cleita Jan 2016 OP
Hillary: The Candidate of Nope. libdem4life Jan 2016 #1
I'm sure she wants it HassleCat Jan 2016 #2
No, she walked that back to being a moderate....oh wait, she's a progressive again... jeff47 Jan 2016 #6
"NO We Can't .. It's just too difficult.." 99th_Monkey Jan 2016 #3
If it isn't even on the table lapfog_1 Jan 2016 #4
Clinton has never supported a single payer TM99 Jan 2016 #5
I'm heartened by two things in the single payer h/c debate swilton Jan 2016 #7

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
6. No, she walked that back to being a moderate....oh wait, she's a progressive again...
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 05:14 PM
Jan 2016

oh, wait, now she's a moderate again.....nope, just claimed liberal....oh, my bad. Now centrist....

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
3. "NO We Can't .. It's just too difficult.."
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 01:10 PM
Jan 2016

difficult to take wads of cash from the very corporations who need to be reigned-in, and
then "get tough" on them. Too hard.

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
5. Clinton has never supported a single payer
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 01:37 PM
Jan 2016

or medicare for all health plan.

She fought for a version of HeritageCare in the 1990's. Then she proposed insurance mandates again in the 2008 election. She only said no Democrat should attack another over health care so she could try and fight against Obama.

Of course she will NEVER fight for it. She never once supported it. She and Sanders are on opposite polls on this position. He wants us to have a national health care plan that actually provides services to all. She wants to have a forced insurance mandate that takes money out of our pockets, puts in the pockets of her campaign contributors, and we are denied services or must pay outrageous deductibles. Oh, and if we don't, then we get a tax penalty.

 

swilton

(5,069 posts)
7. I'm heartened by two things in the single payer h/c debate
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 06:01 PM
Jan 2016

Sanders is leading the fight for one. Secondly, during this campaign the word is getting out through social media. There is exponentially more public awareness about this than there has ever been before. People be forewarned to stay engaged on this issue if Sanders is elected. Stranger things have happened.

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