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the ACA is not from "the left" villager Nov 2013 #1
That dog won't hunt. gulliver Nov 2013 #3
More's the pity then, eh? Since the left kind of warned the center-right about all this villager Nov 2013 #5
Yep. n/t progressoid Nov 2013 #15
HIPPA Puzzledtraveller Nov 2013 #27
Bookmarked. enlightenment Nov 2013 #2
I agree with you. The ACA is a waystation on the road to single-payer. MADem Nov 2013 #4
Honest question: 1000words Nov 2013 #6
Because written into the ACA is the ability for any state to start their own Single Payer plan... VanillaRhapsody Nov 2013 #7
Thank you, VR 1000words Nov 2013 #8
+++ Whisp Nov 2013 #9
It's superfluous Morganfleeman Nov 2013 #12
not just codified....encouraged...as an approved alternative plan.... VanillaRhapsody Nov 2013 #13
Yup. If it fails, Americans won't trust any idea of government-run healthcare... Drunken Irishman Nov 2013 #10
From government run health insurance Lifelong Dem Nov 2013 #11
Don't be saddling "the left" with a fresh take on the right wing think tanks plan TheKentuckian Nov 2013 #14
Are you predicting that, if ACA fails, there will be a big push to abolish Medicare? Jim Lane Nov 2013 #16
Government healthcare either succeeds for fails with Obamacare Democat Nov 2013 #17
No, because the ACA is not government healthcare... Demo_Chris Nov 2013 #20
What makes single payer inevitable? Many countries use a different system Recursion Nov 2013 #18
This assumes no efforts to divorce corporatist healthcare like the ACA... Demo_Chris Nov 2013 #19
To many Americans this is "public healthcare" Democat Nov 2013 #21
How is the conclusion being drawn that the ACA is govt. provided health care? area51 Nov 2013 #22
The Heritage Foundation is now "the left"? Fumesucker Nov 2013 #23
I despise the ACA. It is corporatist fascism at its worse Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2013 #24
Should we set our hair on fire? nt bemildred Nov 2013 #25
I don't see that at all. LWolf Nov 2013 #26
if ACA succeeds, why do we need to change? alc Nov 2013 #28
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