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In reply to the discussion: E X A C T L Y. [View all]IronLionZion
(45,735 posts)35. Thom Hartmann has owned for profit businesses
I'd like to get universal medicare for all too but posting complete BS on an image isn't going to get it for us.
It's going to take a bit more effort. Getting people to vote, winning elections, the ramming it through with a simple majority because we no longer need 60 votes to pass controversial legislation. And a Dem president to sign it into law. And some good messaging to get people to want it and understand why it's good for our country
Here's a good bill to start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Health_Care_Act
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What he claims, I believe, is mostly true. So it would have been better to have said "most".
YOHABLO
Jul 2017
#38
Germany (2012), hospitals: 833 public, 1,040 private non-profit, 1,356 private for-profit.
ucrdem
Jul 2017
#40
The lobbyists for Big Pharma and Insur Co. are basically killing us help with help from the GOP.
BigmanPigman
Jul 2017
#21