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Yavin4

(37,182 posts)
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 12:10 PM Jun 2012

Discrimination Against Millions of Our Fellow Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions End! [View all]

They will now be able to purchase life-saving health insurance, and that's a major cause for celebration.

I, like many here, wanted a single-payer system, but we live in a world where two sitting Dem. senators won't even attend the friggin Democratic national convention. So, I don't know how you're going to get them to vote for cloture on a single-payer bill of any kind.

Bottom line, pure single payer won't happen here for another generation or so. The ACA is the best that we can do in the short term.

Congrats to America.

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