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Cleita

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4. All the successful health care programs use single payer of some sort, even in France.

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:45 PM

Mar 2012

Basic health care is single payer and mandated. Then private insurance can be bought for co-pays and bells and whistles. It's pretty much how our Medicare works, which we should extend to everyone. If we can't do that then Medicare should be offered on the open market to be purchased by companies and unions for their employees and members. But, the insurance companies don't like that, so they got their lobbyists to poison the ACA by eliminating the public option buy in. So here we are today. The SCOTUS has no business making laws or appointing presidents. That's Congresses job.

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I'm ALL FOR single-payer, but I feel some of you are just not living in reality sometimes. [View all] FarLeftFist Mar 2012 OP

Not in this House and Senate, but in November we have the opportunity to change that. Cleita Mar 2012 #1

In what reality is single payer the only other choice? Bluenorthwest Mar 2012 #2

All the successful health care programs use single payer of some sort, even in France. Cleita Mar 2012 #4

Eat your peas and like them. OnyxCollie Mar 2012 #3

I'm going to keep demanding it. In spite of Debbie Downers who can't refrain from kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #5

In June we will see for certain what reality is, won't we? kenny blankenship Mar 2012 #6

You're right about single payer but wrong about the public option. eomer Mar 2012 #7

I live in reality and that means the only way we get nothing is when we fight for nothing. libtodeath Mar 2012 #8