What's wrong with "healthcare" in America. . . .

[athena]

95. Just as I thought.

She didn't actually say, "single payer will never, ever happen."

Taking comments out of context used to be a right-wing tactic. It's sad to see it used by the Left.

What Hillary really said was, "People who have health emergencies can't wait for us to have a theoretical debate about some better idea that will never, ever come to pass." She did not say that single payer will never, ever, happen. If you think that the "idea" she is referring to is single-payer health care, then you have to admit that she thinks it is a "better idea." She may, of course, have been referring to Bernie's specific health-care plan, which probably "will never, ever come to pass."

As someone who is firmly in favor of single-payer health care, I agree with Hillary. As much as I would love single-payer health care, it is extremely unlikely that this Congress would pass anything approaching single-payer health care. It would be foolish to throw away precious political capital trying to push a bill that is extremely unlikely to make it through Congress. If we want single-payer health care, we need to advocate for it at every opportunity. We have to write to our representatives, and talk to everyone we know about how it's a much better idea. Simply attacking and disparaging a liberal who points out the current political reality is not going to achieve single payer health care or anything like it.

Note that Hillary is in favor of a public option, which is the first realistic step toward single-payer health care in the current political climate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-health-care-public-option.html