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2016 Postmortem

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24. Why is it working in Canada and other countries and NOT America? It would be one thing if our system

Reply to LuvLoogie (Reply #23)

Sun Oct 25, 2015, 03:06 PM

Oct 2015

was better but it sucks in comparison to the rest of the modern world.

That's why they all have single payer or full universal healthcare...

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A vote for Bernie Sanders is a vote in support of single payer health care insurance [View all] think Oct 2015 OP

A vote for a Democrat is a vote in support of single payer health care insurance. nt onehandle Oct 2015 #1

What other Democratic candidate for president is running on single payer healthcare? /nt think Oct 2015 #2

Really? 99Forever Oct 2015 #3

Nope. Obamacare was a step in the opposite direction Armstead Oct 2015 #4

HRC Will Make No Changes To The ACA cantbeserious Oct 2015 #5

Hillary does NOT support single payer pinebox Oct 2015 #21

Bernie voted for Obamacare, which is closer to HillaryCare than it is to BernieCare. LuvLoogie Oct 2015 #6

Got any sources for your claims? think Oct 2015 #7

Here's the vote roll call: LuvLoogie Oct 2015 #8

To begin with the single payer health idea was around long jwirr Oct 2015 #11

It's just not a vote FOR single payer health care... brooklynite Oct 2015 #9

Did I not put in the right in the title a vote IN SUPPORT OF? think Oct 2015 #12

You did..and I'm suggesting that there's no great value if it's not achievable brooklynite Oct 2015 #13

Yes because your candidate won't even fight for it. Thanks! think Oct 2015 #15

there will be plenty of congressional support restorefreedom Oct 2015 #16

Care to tell me who they are? brooklynite Oct 2015 #20

so if bernie is president, restorefreedom Oct 2015 #33

Bernie will just wave his magic wand workinclasszero Oct 2015 #32

Until we have an unassailable majority in both houses MineralMan Oct 2015 #10

Hillary's not even fighting for it. When Sanders has America fired up for it then she'll chime in... think Oct 2015 #14

me too! nt restorefreedom Oct 2015 #18

Uhhhh, no. MohRokTah Oct 2015 #17

We agree. If Hillary is president we won't see single payer for sure. Thank you. think Oct 2015 #19

IT doesn't matter who is president, we won't see single payer. MohRokTah Oct 2015 #22

Vermont actually passed Single Payer. LuvLoogie Oct 2015 #23

Why is it working in Canada and other countries and NOT America? It would be one thing if our system think Oct 2015 #24

Okay. So Canada did it province by province over time,... LuvLoogie Oct 2015 #26

The governor who backs Hillary but ran on single payer changed his mind and decided he CAN'T do it. think Oct 2015 #30

Vermont failed to implement single payer. MohRokTah Oct 2015 #25

Perhaps Bernie could form the Single-Payer Party. LuvLoogie Oct 2015 #28

That would set back movement towards single payer by about a century. eom MohRokTah Oct 2015 #29

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #27

Thank you Uncle Joe. /nt think Oct 2015 #31