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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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In reply to the discussion: Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders [View all]Uncle Joe
(60,097 posts)30. Well Sir it's not that I doubt your sincerity, just your level of motivation.
"My view of private insurance would curl your hair."
Our nation goes through great disruption every single year when companies go bankrupt with workers losing their jobs and "health" insurance but few in the corporate media and elsewhere seemed to give a shit about that.
Even if Medicare for All were to pass it wouldn't happen overnight but with a four year transition.
The author of the OP adroitly encapsulated the big picture whether one can or wishes to see it all or not.
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This Has Been Another Episode Of Lame Comments From No One In Particular, Sir
The Magistrate
Mar 2020
#1
Most Bernie supporters ADD value to America, "Bernie Bro" trolls prefer to SUBTRACT and destroy
LVZ
Mar 2020
#42
It's not helpful if one prefers a health care system based on profit over the public good.
Uncle Joe
Mar 2020
#11
Well Sir it's not that I doubt your sincerity, just your level of motivation.
Uncle Joe
Mar 2020
#30
No one has EVER demonstrated that we have a health care "system" (a misnomer) that is based....
George II
Mar 2020
#48
As my favorite comedian, George Carlin, would say - a one-armed man in a rowboat.
George II
Mar 2020
#49
Do you mean the crossroads where Bernie doesn't receive the presidential nomination?
TexasTowelie
Mar 2020
#13
community health clinics are financed by an amendment to the aca that bernie wrote and pushed thru
questionseverything
Mar 2020
#52
i am suggestting don't bring up senate votes records if your candidate's record is lacking
questionseverything
Apr 2020
#90
i am not telling you what to post but its dishonest of you to want to dis bernies senate record and
questionseverything
Apr 2020
#99
Wrong, "every other country" did NOT do that a long time ago. How's it working in Italy and the UK?
George II
Mar 2020
#50
Other countries started a long time ago.... from scratch... when health care cost much less
ehrnst
Mar 2020
#65
The author of this piece called Hillary a "genteel, insidious bigot" in Jul '16
mathematic
Mar 2020
#18
Just because she is an an African-American academic, does not make her words correct.
sheshe2
Mar 2020
#63
Reality sidelines Bernie. He doesn't need to sit on the bench inhopes of being put back in the game.
UncleNoel
Mar 2020
#59