Bill Clinton Makes the Case for Bernie Sanders' Single Payer Healthcare

[tomm2thumbs]

Thanks Bill!

[hedda_foil]

1. So today, he's promised single payer healthcare AND free college for all. Suuuuuures.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. That was before he got bought.

[Geronimoe]

5. He was bought before he became President

This actually was while he was getting impeached and he was a lame duck.

It is politically difficult to impeach a President who has favorable ratings.

[videohead5]

3. The Problem is

No one is going to get singles payer through congress the way it is now.Obama had to drop the public option out of Obamacare and then he still had a bitch of a time getting it passed.

[pdsimdars]

4. Obama didn't know how to get the public involved and fight

He wanted to schmooze it all inside the beltway. He left us out of it. Big mistake.

[videohead5]

8. We got to

Get rid of gerrymandering and then single payer will have a chance.

[Geronimoe]

7. He made a faustian bargain

with the for-profit corporations. All smoke and mirrors.

[Enthusiast]

9. Not exactly. Discussion of single payer was VERBOTEN.

It was verboten because if the people knew how efficient and less expensive it was they would insist on single payer. There was no discussion of single payer leading up to the ACA.

How do we know what kind of citizen pressure would have been brought to bear on the legislative process if the people were allowed to hear the truth about single payer.

That is why there are thousands of anti-single payer and misinformationist paid internet sock puppets. They are all over social media. They say things like this system or that system isn't true single payer. They have all sorts of insurance industry and pharmaceutical industry talking points.

Misinformation is the largest impediment to single payer. The legislature would change if people were allowed to know the truth.

[TubbersUK]

10. Totally agree

It takes a lot of people pushing a lot of misinformation to distract from the fact that America's inadequate healthcare system costs a jaw-dropping 17.2% of GDP.

Some of the propaganda and diversionary tactics are shameless, Americans deserve better.

[Enthusiast]

11. Americans do deserve better than this profit system masquerading as a health care system.

[cantbeserious]

6. Divide And Conquer - Carrot And Stick - Pander And Plunder - Never Any Progress Or Action

Same Old - Same Old

[NCjack]

12. USA needs to see this in Bernie2016 political advertisement. It would be entertaining to see

the Bill lie and explain that "yes, I was wrong then, but I'm right now in supporting ObamaCare as the system for America." Followed by some right-wing bullshit how personal struggles with deadly diseases make us strong -- not weak and uncreative like the Western Europeans. Vote Bernie2016 to remove the collar of debt slavery.

[Helen Borg]

13. Oops.

[DhhD]

14. He is apologizing before the biggest jump Left yet, so Hillary can campaign like Bill did in 1992.

Right after Bill entered the Oval Office, Bill and Hill began privatizing and modernizing federal acts with Republicans like Phil Gramm and Newt Gingrich and with banks and Savings and Loans. Clinton's are now trying to back track on the harm and starvation of the rice and farming commodity system that the Clinton's and Republicans- set in to place using Big Corporate Ag.


See last one: Drug Patents. Hillary is lying about her 20% drop in drug prices policy.
http://www.allgov.com/news/unusual-news/8-policy-decisions-bill-clinton-now-regrets-150721?news=857012


http://www.agritrade.org/Publications/PolicyFocus/Farm_Bill_5_white_commodities.pdf