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In reply to the discussion: Establishment Dems Fight to Defeat 'Medicare-for-All' in Colorado [View all]ReRe
(10,597 posts)57. This pretty much tells everyone whose side...
... Hillary is on. And it isn't the people's side. She's on the Corporate side. Got that? She's in the 1% Club, and we the people ain't in it.
And frankly, I would never have envisioned this coming to pass. For all the world, it's like someone died. In being against Colorado's universal health campaign, she and her cohorts have betrayed the Democratic Party.
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Would these be the same establishment Democrats who assured us Obamacare was but
merrily
May 2016
#1
A group of Bernie's campaign staff split off of the campaign to start Bernie's next assault.
Dustlawyer
May 2016
#32
this sort of verifies what Bernie has been saying all the time-The third way gang!
dmosh42
May 2016
#2
Basically said it? She couldn't have said it any louder than the scream when she said it. n/t
tom_kelly
May 2016
#34
A 1995 Clinton era trade deal made it that way. To get single payer we have to change it first.
Baobab
May 2016
#59
There's a difference in saying it won't happen with our Congress and saying she doesn't want it to
Hoyt
May 2016
#53
Again, she says single payer won't happen. Similarly if asked, she would say cancer will not be
Hoyt
May 2016
#90
She had a good plan at the time. Might as well criticize Truman who first proposed
Hoyt
May 2016
#65
It was a cover up to cover up that they were writing an FTA that made single payer FTA illegal.
Baobab
May 2016
#113
It was not a good plan considering that at the same time they were writing the global deal
Baobab
May 2016
#107
She had to hide GVT5- people would have gone insane in 1994 if they knew about GVT5
Baobab
May 2016
#106
"Public option" fails because of bothGATS Article I:3 (b)(c) issue AND AdverseSelection>death spiral
Baobab
May 2016
#75
The GATS is junk. Any country is allowed to rescind GATS assuming it even applies in this
Hoyt
May 2016
#83
There is absolutely nothing in all of that which prohibits the USA from going to a Public Option,
Hoyt
May 2016
#89
USTR supports my position, other countries can't have it. We obviously can't have it either.
Baobab
May 2016
#99
Looks like Maine went ahead with its health plan, despite inquiry you cite written 10 years ago.
Hoyt
May 2016
#102
Thats what I meant. Nothing can change because of GATS. ACA is another in a chain of failures.
Baobab
May 2016
#110
Things have changed since GATS started a few decades ago. You need a new world conspiracy theory.
Hoyt
May 2016
#111
"There is a disconnect between the powers that be and the people" clearly states the party`s problem
democrank
May 2016
#7
See my post above, Bernie and some of his now former campaign staff have a plan.
Dustlawyer
May 2016
#33
The D brand is severely tarnished. It's looking a lot like the R brand of yesteryear. -nt
CrispyQ
May 2016
#35
well gosh, I wonder why dems are fighting against medicare for all since they would
bbgrunt
May 2016
#37
Very appropriate to this situation, given Hillary's propensity to grandiosity and millitarism.
Baobab
May 2016
#93
I thought all Dems were for 100% healthcare coverage? But not Hillary, huh?
Zen Democrat
May 2016
#101
I'm not sure why this is surprising. The ACA passed without a single republican vote,
hughee99
May 2016
#103