Bernie Sanders Goes All-In On California Primary, Plans Big Rallies

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72. Bernie never claimed getting single payer was going to be easy and has suggested it would take

a fight where people needed to become involved including working to change the makeup of congress.

But if you think single payer or any form of universal healthcare will ever come to be without bold leadership that not reality.

And when Hillary is taking millions from health care corporations who don't want the system to interrupt their profits and Hillary says single payer will never happen it's obvious she is not the leader we need to make these changes happen.

Thank fully now very late in the game she's bringing up a public option again but this is after slamming single payer and claiming it will never happen.

Hillary Clinton Once Again Backs the Public Option. What Took Her So Long?

By Jordan Weissmann - FEB. 23 2016 10:11 AM

Hillary Clinton is once again embracing the public option. As Politico noticed Monday, the presidential candidate has added a section to her website stating that she still supports the concept of creating a government-run health plan to compete against private insurers, which she also backed backed during her 2008 campaign.

The public option was a deeply popular idea among progressives during the legislative battles over the Affordable Care Act in 2009 and 2010. Advocates argued it would lower costs and possibly serve as a bridge toward a single-payer system. The proposal also polled extremely well with the public. But it died rather brutally thanks to opposition from more conservative Senate Democrats, including Nebraska's Ben Nelson, and independent Joe Lieberman. (In its place, we got Obamacare's nonprofit health care co-ops, which seem to have been a flop so far.)

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