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(68,876 posts)For decades the people with money have been lined up against this. First the American Medical Association because they wanted to protect the high reimbursements to sub-specialties. Then the commercial insurance industry when they realized how much money they could make insuring the young and healthy while letting the government take care of the poor and elderly. Every time reasonable people have suggested the obvious and reasonable solution - the approach used by every other industrialized nation on Earth - the money-grubbers go bananas and spend billions convincing people that Obamacare will kill them.
The time may have come for us to push through the second half of Obamacare, which is universal health care coverage for all. It will save us trillions of dollars and result in much better health of all our people. In turn, this will help the economy enormously. It's a win-win-win.