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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who else wanted single-payer universal healthcare over the ACA? [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)61. Care to expound? She's not going to touch one Insurance Executive's job or pay grade. Not one.
Like "cut it out", she wants to Tweak it here and there. But status quo will reign.
And all caps on an accusation...not cool. Does nothing for your message but make it less palatable.
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Why should Hillary want to change anything? She and the rest of the 1%ers are doing great.
Still In Wisconsin
Jan 2016
#7
Truthfully, if they run a good quality health system, I don't care if they make really good income
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#153
Yes, well said. This is what needs to happen, and Bernie is the only one who would
Nay
Jan 2016
#169
Please make sure Sanders goes around SC saying Obamacare is a poor foundation and that
uponit7771
Jan 2016
#123
Thank you for an honest post. I really hate that BS supporters twist everything.
laureloak
Jan 2016
#66
Hillary thinks ACA is fine as is because of teh Donations she has received from the industries
Ferd Berfel
Jan 2016
#18
Hillary has taken too much cash for speeches to healthcare companies opposing single payer!
ViseGrip
Jan 2016
#23
Stop LYING about Clinton's position on the ACA. She has proposals to go further.
KittyWampus
Jan 2016
#26
I didn't hear her plans last night, I heard her scare people saying Bernie wanted to scrap the ACA
Fast Walker 52
Jan 2016
#42
Care to expound? She's not going to touch one Insurance Executive's job or pay grade. Not one.
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#61
I've spent the past 4 months trying to get insurance after moving to another state
Chathamization
Jan 2016
#27
I do. My sister's prosthetic limb costs 45,000$ every time she has to get a new one
roguevalley
Jan 2016
#29
I remember being pissed when the Public Option was tossed aside at the very beginning.
Roland99
Jan 2016
#45
How could you believe this, unless you totally bought into insurance industry talking points?
Enthusiast
Jan 2016
#158
Thank you, Enthusiast. The REAL world, as opposed to US Fantasy Bootstrap World, has
Nay
Jan 2016
#177
Yes! We do not have to accept the status quo. Not when everyone else has better.
Enthusiast
Jan 2016
#183
Any health care system that leaves profit motives intact is not a good solution.
Enthusiast
Jan 2016
#71
Hillary and the rest of the Dem Establishment is 100% OWNED by the Healthcare Industry.
Odin2005
Jan 2016
#86
Another fundamentally dishonest opening post. Universal Health Care is the goal NOT SINGLE PAYER.
KittyWampus
Jan 2016
#95
The notion that healthcare is a human right will be as easy to get the US to accept
librechik
Jan 2016
#105
When every act must be attuned to moneymaking, we get bastardized 'health plans' like
Nay
Jan 2016
#172
I wanted Medicare for All, but would have settled for a strong public option. I got neither.
merrily
Jan 2016
#134
"...new insurance co. reviews her records and determines what they will and will not cover."
Snarkoleptic
Jan 2016
#139
All I remember is something about unicorns and something being called "fucking retarded." n/t
xocet
Jan 2016
#146
I remember a local doctors' group deeply split on whether or not to support ACA
philly_bob
Jan 2016
#150
pre-ACA, I expected the age for medicare to be lowered to about 50, apparently the 'for profit'...
Sunlei
Jan 2016
#156
Fighting harder for single payer might have at least gotten us a public option.
eridani
Jan 2016
#160
But..but..what about the poor downtrodden Insurance and Pharmaceutical companies??? K&R
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2016
#186