Single-Payer Health Care Is Seeing Record Support in Congress

[Tom Rinaldo]

21. I agree the tone can be called divisive.

But there is still a valid point to be made there. I believe that Hillary Clinton was sincerely advocating for what she felt was the best way forward for health care for America during her campaign, and I know that differences get exaggerated during primaries. But this is what was being said then:

Hillary Clinton: "Single-payer health care will "never, ever" happen"
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-single-payer-health-care-will-never-ever-happen/

"Just a few days before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton stressed to voters in Des Moines just how unfeasible she considers her opponent Bernie Sanders' plan to pursue a single-payer health care system.

"I want you to understand why I am fighting so hard for the Affordable Care Act," she said at Grand View University after hearing from a woman who spoke about her daughter receiving cancer treatment thanks to the health care law. "I don't want it repealed, I don't want us to be thrown back into a terrible, terrible national debate. I don't want us to end up in gridlock. People can't wait!"

She added, "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."

I think the valid point being made is that what falls into the range of politically possible is a moving target that can move rapidly.