Bernie Sanders
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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.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)She's a progressive, after all.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)oh, wait, now she's a moderate again.....nope, just claimed liberal....oh, my bad. Now centrist....
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)difficult to take wads of cash from the very corporations who need to be reigned-in, and
then "get tough" on them. Too hard.
lapfog_1
(29,228 posts)and no one in power asks for it...
we won't get it for sure.
TM99
(8,352 posts)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)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.