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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders thanks Kamala Harris for endorsing single-payer [View all]R B Garr
(16,950 posts)a long time.
Here's info on the Clinton's Health Care Plan -- Decades ago now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993
"Once in office, Bill Clinton quickly set up the Task Force on National Health Care Reform,[7] headed by First Lady Hillary Clinton, to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, which was to be a cornerstone of the administration's first-term agenda. He delivered a major health care speech to a joint session of Congress on September 22, 1993.[8] In that speech, he explained the problem:
'Millions of Americans are just a pink slip away from losing their health insurance, and one serious illness away from losing all their savings. Millions more are locked into the jobs they have now just because they or someone in their family has once been sick and they have what is called the preexisting condition. And on any given day, over 37 million Americansmost of them working people and their little childrenhave no health insurance at all. And in spite of all this, our medical bills are growing at over twice the rate of inflation, and the United States spends over a third more of its income on health care than any other nation on Earth.'"