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Doctor_J

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8. They never locked the for-profits into a half trillion dollar per year guarantee

Reply to IronLionZion (Reply #7)

Wed May 7, 2014, 10:40 AM

May 2014

Big Insurance raking in 20% of our health "care" money is now the law of the land. They will never, ever let that go. The comparison to Canada is a canard to hide the abject failure of the 2009-2010 Congress. Medicare was implemented, nationwide, in less than two years, starting from nothing. The British NHS was implemented in 3 years, starting from nothing.

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Getting serious about a single payer system [View all] eridani May 2014 OP

, blkmusclmachine May 2014 #1

Is Baucus gone yet? Demeter May 2014 #2

He's gone...replaced by John Walsh brooklynite May 2014 #13

k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth May 2014 #3

How criminal it is that one person can usurp the will of tens or hundreds of millions of people. Flatulo May 2014 #4

It might not be technically illegal but it sure ain't a bit nice. Enthusiast May 2014 #5

Oh, I know - I meant in the moral sense, not the legal. With very few exceptions, Flatulo May 2014 #9

unfortunately the president disagrees Doctor_J May 2014 #6

Canada got it one province at a time IronLionZion May 2014 #7

They never locked the for-profits into a half trillion dollar per year guarantee Doctor_J May 2014 #8

Someone is getting something they don't deserve IronLionZion May 2014 #15

Doing nothing in 2009 would have led to SP much faster Doctor_J May 2014 #16

Do you know how many times single payer was attempted in our country? IronLionZion May 2014 #17

Agreed. US states are much more like Canadian provinces than like any European-- eridani May 2014 #12

I Think Dirty Socialist May 2014 #10

K&R me b zola May 2014 #11

I'd like to see it. But I think we're 10 years away from it. NT Adrahil May 2014 #14