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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who else wanted single-payer universal healthcare over the ACA? [View all]Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)38. Nearly a third of said person's income if they are supported by SS.
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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