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Single Payer will "Never Ever Come to Pass" - Hillary Clinton (video)
The real reason it can never come to pass is detailed here. A "Free Trade Agreement" - signed by Bill Clinton in 1994 - that BARS it completely.
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Single Payer will "Never Ever Come to Pass" - Hillary Clinton (video) (Original Post)
Baobab
May 2016
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doc03
(38,930 posts)1. I think she is right, the insurance lobby will never allow it. n/t
Baobab
(4,667 posts)2. did you read the late Nicholas Skala's 2009 IJHS paper? (linked)
Here is an alternative site for it. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.405.5725
this is also good.
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)3. And the Democratic Party hasn't had the stones to fight for it
Why? Because ever since Mondale/Dukakis the Democratic Party, remade by the DLC into a "me too GOP-lite" party, has been so afraid of being called "liberal, socialist," etc by RW hate media that they've been like scared little church mice.
In the meantime the Republicans have almost completely remade the country into an Ayn Rand petri dish.