2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dem Platform Committee votes *Against* Single-Payer Healthcare 7-6 [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)Single-payer is a charged issue that has been poisoned by billions in mind-control marketing since the 1990s. There are many voters who do not and never will understand the issue until it lands in their laps and saves their lives.
But Hillary Clinton knows. She well remembers how conservatives and the insurance industry teamed up and savaged her with personal attacks for eight years, and won.
The current state of affairs is a compromise which was never intended to last. It needs to be fixed, soon it's going to have to be fixed and, if the Don keeps saying what's on his twisted mind, it will be able to be fixed as he drags the Republican Congress to the sewers with him.
So, I conclude, it might be to our advantage to leave this off the platform so that Republicans cannot use it as a weapon. I will be astonished and deeply disappointed if President Clinton fails to address it.