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Single Payer Health Systems

DissidentVoice

(813 posts)

5. What I don't understand...

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sat Oct 29, 2016, 01:40 PM

Oct 2016

...is why single-payer is not even on the table for discussion, not even among prominent Democrats.

Bill Clinton was not favouring single-payer when he presented his plan in 1994, and then promptly rolled over and let the Republicans kick him.

Obamacare, while a tiny step in the right direction, is not single-payer, and he caved to Max Baucus on the "public option" (which would have been a few baby-steps further), despite having to have known that trying to keep the insurance companies in charge to get Republican votes wouldn't work. They have never supported anything Obama has done or tried to do.

Why is Hillary Clinton not even mentioning single-payer?

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My thoughts on Single-Payer [View all] SHRED Oct 2016 OP

Here's a one-word answer. "Medicare". brush Oct 2016 #1

I understand and support that SHRED Oct 2016 #2

Do it over time the way most business evolves Auggie Oct 2016 #3

Start by lowering the age to 55 Merlot Nov 2016 #6

+1 Auggie Nov 2016 #7

The American Heath care system makes people sick. Cracklin Charlie Oct 2016 #4

What I don't understand... DissidentVoice Oct 2016 #5

AMERICA NEEDS NATIONAL HEALTHCARE Lenrod Jan 2017 #8