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In reply to the discussion: We can't even get our party behind a single payer system [View all]Demsrule86
(71,542 posts)43. I a so sick of this sort of talk...do you have any idea how many would die if this were to happen.
Also, I am not sure we would get it even then. We can not tear it down for some pie in the sky revolution. It won't happen.
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Even harder since state legislatures have limited abilities to affect Medicare. nt
stevenleser
Jun 2017
#49
I'm going to suggest that Warren will be a far better advocate for SP than Sanders was...
brooklynite
Jun 2017
#21
SHRED please research before posting things like that in the future because if
cstanleytech
Jun 2017
#8
It gives them time to work on it and fix the problems unless you think rushing through things like
cstanleytech
Jun 2017
#12
Some people would rather throw up stuff rather than painfully think through and resolve each major
Blue_true
Jun 2017
#39
+1000, and that's exactly what happened here. It was an incomplete bill and forced
R B Garr
Jun 2017
#41
That is exactly right RB. Pushing a bill through with out dealing with issues such a financing,
still_one
Jun 2017
#52
Homeless, jobless, with the possibility of insurance is not an opportunity...
NCTraveler
Jun 2017
#38
Please - it wasn't killed. It was put on hold. A lot of the funding was dependent on Medicaid...
haele
Jun 2017
#16
WRONG! CA Assemblyman Speaker Rendon counters Bernie Sanders/fans with ACTUAL FACTS:
R B Garr
Jun 2017
#23
Yes, it seems Dems are against (or at least not for) single payer healthcare...
Trial_By_Fire
Jun 2017
#28
That is exactly why single payer failed in Vermont, because when it reached the Governor's office
still_one
Jun 2017
#53
Democrats are not against single payer...I think it would be great. But it won't work
Demsrule86
Jun 2017
#42
I a so sick of this sort of talk...do you have any idea how many would die if this were to happen.
Demsrule86
Jun 2017
#43
Not just CA, but it couldn't be done in the home of the loudest and most vociferous spokesman for...
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2017
#51
It isn't dead in California, it is on hold. They have to see how much federal funding will be
still_one
Jun 2017
#54
We can get to universal care with a Medicare expansion without single payer
La Lioness Priyanka
Jun 2017
#55