"We warned the president -- don't ever, ever agree with the Republicans,"

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158. "I would prefer single payer' they all say. Why? Few actual single payer programs exist while

many nations provide universal coverage using other methods. Fact is, many of our peer nations employ a mandate to purchase health insurance, far more of those than there are 'single payer' systems. Our pending law is the first on the planet to mandate the purchase of for profit products in health care. 100% of other mandating nations make it a crime to profit from those mandated policies. A crime. Let's talk about that reality and drop all the rhetoric about single payer and magic wands and pundits you do not care for. Just tell me why you support a for profit mandate, the first in all the world over a nonprofit mandate. Let's assume a mandate is needed. Why then is the profit allowed, much less required in our system? That profit is not part of other mandates, and we could mandate without the profit factor like ALL other democracies do.
Of course the Parties are not the same. That's as obvious as is the lack of good coming from profit based mandates when compared to the realistically functioning non profit mandates the rest of the civilized world employs.