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Sheepshank

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9. Millions of lives don't count...because, you know Single Payer....

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 12:04 PM

Mar 2014

I have seen the counter arguments so many times on DU recently: because there was no single payer, universal, socialized health, there should have been nothing, holding out for the gold standard !!

Such short sighted extremism is the norm here lately *sigh*

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