Hillary Clinton's Absurd Bernie Smear: Why Attacking Him From the Left on Healthcare Makes Literally

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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/hillary-clintons-absurd-bernie-smear-why-attacking-him-left-healthcare-makes

The Democratic front-runner is starting to feel the Bern, and in desperation she's picking entirely the wrong fight.

After years of the right wing trying one scheme after another to take away Obamacare, it jars the senses to watch Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton accuse her primary rival, Bernie Sanders, of wanting to take away Obamacare.

Sanders, she now insists, would do so from the left by instituting a program — single-payer healthcare — that would be more progressive than the Affordable Care Act. Yet this possibility is portrayed in the starkest of terms. It’s as if the Clinton campaign saw a house burning down and told the fire department to put it out by setting the house next door on fire to suck up all the oxygen feeding the flames.

The attack is predicated on a bill that Sanders introduced in the Senate in 2013 that would have set up national single-payer. The bill would have required each state to set up its own single-payer program. A federal board would oversee these state programs and take charge of any that don’t meet whatever requirements it lays out. All federal programs – Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP – would have been folded into these state-run ones.

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1. That is the strategy of here campaign

consultant. They want HRC to appear centrist and in Iowa,Mr. King has poisoned the well when it comes to any Government run Health measures. You are seeing how the Rethugs have carved up the Populace on Social Issues. But,hey this is wonderful,maybe people will finally do some Critical Thinking.

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2. Kickin'