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KoKo

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21. I've seen posts with HOPE that this will lead to Medicare for All...
Thu Nov 14, 2013, 07:24 PM
Nov 2013

I'm with you on ..."Single Payer"....but, I'm not as hopeful as you that this will be achieved soon enough...that so many will be given false hopes and dashed and that it will be many years.

I wonder if the pain folks have to live through all of this...is worth it for the Long Run. I don't like to see folks ground down waiting when they are desperate.

But, I can see that maybe this is what "has to be" before folks wake up to MEDICARE for ALL...is the way to go.

So...thanks for your views...and the discussion. I just wish the whole ACA had been much better handled by our Democrats that we trusted to be "on top" of all this. That's the disappointment some of us Dems on the Left have.... that our Dem Infrastructure was SO WEAK that it allowed this and didn't steer Obama and cover him... I don't blame Obama but more our weak seeming "Dem Power Structure" for this. If you can understand where I'm coming from as I have understood where YOU are coming from.

Peace!

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Oh Horse hockey Peacetrain Nov 2013 #1
I think that the hard thing is those who have confusion with plans cancelled KoKo Nov 2013 #5
The President should sign an executive order that allows all those cancellees to buy a Cleita Nov 2013 #8
I had something up early this morning.. that Peacetrain Nov 2013 #12
It would be super cool if this caused them to trip over their own shit Cleita Nov 2013 #14
From your lips to Gods ears Peacetrain Nov 2013 #16
I've seen posts with HOPE that this will lead to Medicare for All... KoKo Nov 2013 #21
It's nothing like Social Security. The right would like to put in their privatization plan Cleita Nov 2013 #7
Think risk pool Peacetrain Nov 2013 #9
Risk pool is a common denominator in insurance. It has nothing to do with Social Security. Cleita Nov 2013 #10
Social Security is insurance.. Peacetrain Nov 2013 #11
Okay, you win. It's insurance as it's named. Cleita Nov 2013 #13
risk pool for social security? Peacetrain Nov 2013 #15
You are dug in on this so I can't argue the point anymore. Cleita Nov 2013 #17
We will have to agree to disagree on this one Peacetrain Nov 2013 #19
Oh... it's you. lamp_shade Nov 2013 #2
lamp_shade...just a caution KoKo Nov 2013 #3
Really? That's astounding. Cleita Nov 2013 #4
Good point ... KoKo Nov 2013 #6
Obama was betrayed by right leaning democrats in the legislature n/t mwrguy Nov 2013 #18
How So..? I think Mary Landrieu could be one because her district is KoKo Nov 2013 #20
He wasnt at all betrayed. He is right leaning in my opinion. nm rhett o rick Nov 2013 #22
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