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Donkees

(31,383 posts)
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 11:53 AM Sep 2017

Pelosi declines to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders' single-payer healthcare bill

SEPT. 12, 2017, 8:43 A.M.

Excerpt:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declined Tuesday to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders' single-payer healthcare bill, saying her immediate goal is to protect the Affordable Care Act from President Trump's efforts to dismantle it.

Pelosi made it clear that her distance from the bill, which Sanders expects to unveil with top progressives this week, creating something of a litmus test for Democrats, had little to do with its contents. Rather she is working on more incremental gains to preserve and expand coverage for as many Americans as possible, despite Republican opposition to Obamacare.

"Right now, I’m protecting the Affordable Care Act," Pelosi told a small group of reporters at a meeting Tuesday in her Capitol Hill office. "None of these other things, whether it’s Bernie’s (bill), can really prevail unless we have the Affordable Care Act protected."

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-pelosi-declines-to-endorse-bernie-1505230000-htmlstory.html

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Pelosi declines to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders' single-payer healthcare bill (Original Post) Donkees Sep 2017 OP
How Much Money Does Pelosi Get From The Health Insurance.... global1 Sep 2017 #1
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That's my Representative. Hell Hath No Fury Sep 2017 #4
I expected this one too. It's all fine, others are stepping up for the American people . Autumn Sep 2017 #5

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Autumn

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5. I expected this one too. It's all fine, others are stepping up for the American people .
Tue Sep 12, 2017, 06:49 PM
Sep 2017

Keep it up Bernie. We will win this healthcare fight

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