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wasupaloopa

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6. Ok we disagree

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #5)

Fri Jun 23, 2017, 02:56 PM

Jun 2017

Single payer is code for government paid for insurance. That is how the majority sees it.

If we went for single payer we would not have gotten the support we did for the ACA
Again it is idealism vs pragmatism

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I do believe that much of the criticism of [View all] wasupaloopa Jun 2017 OP

Agreed! Nancy and Hillary are wonderful leaders...would they rather have McConnell and Ryan who c-rational Jun 2017 #1

Wasn't Pelosi instrumental in making sure Single Payer was never considered PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2017 #2

Single payer would not have passed back then. She is smarter than many of us. wasupaloopa Jun 2017 #4

Count me among those utterly furious that single payer was taken off the table at the very outset. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2017 #5

Ok we disagree wasupaloopa Jun 2017 #6

So, you have no problem with single payer not being on the table. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2017 #8

Passing the ACA took great leadership. NCTraveler Jun 2017 #7

No- that was Joe Lieberman EffieBlack Jun 2017 #9

Weak conservative men hate strong, independent, liberal women meow2u3 Jun 2017 #3