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eridani

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Sun May 31, 2015, 03:01 AM May 2015

Favorite Hillary health care quote from 2007

Got this from Steven Brill's new book America's Bitter Pill, the story of health care reform from Romneycare to the present.

And then there was Hillary Clinton. The New York senator stole the show. He standing, strolling presentation was a tour de force of personal stories, sophisticated detail, easily understandable data and great one-liners.

]The insurance companies make money by spending a lot of money and employing a lot of people to try to avoid insuring you, and then if you're insured, to try to avoid paying for the health care you received.


Which makes me wonder if she may move us in the direction of single payer. After all, conservatives at the time objected to the ACA on the grounds that it could lead to single payer.
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Favorite Hillary health care quote from 2007 (Original Post) eridani May 2015 OP
A single payer system is more desirable, did not have the votes to pull it off the Thinkingabout May 2015 #1
Thank's for digging that up. William769 May 2015 #2

Thinkingabout

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1. A single payer system is more desirable, did not have the votes to pull it off the
Sun May 31, 2015, 02:05 PM
May 2015

single payer. Having said this the ACA has provided health insurance to many who did not have insurance before. If all the states had expanded Medicaid the many more would be insured. This was a big part of ACA, planning to have this happen but the party of NO, the GOP is blocking many from having health insurance.

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