2016 Postmortem

roguevalley

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34. If health care abject failure is the topic here, then Hillary wrote the book.

Thu Sep 10, 2015, 01:56 AM

Sep 2015

I remember watching here with her little teapot and being furious. She didn't have a damned clue what was coming from that committee toward her. She failed miserably. But apparently only Bernie's count.

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Bernie will win because most Americans worry far more about health care costs than they worry about socialism [View all] Bjorn Against Sep 2015 OP

Really? How many times has the GOP voted to try and repeal Obamacare? MADem Sep 2015 #1

Really? How many times has the GOP managed to repeal Obamacare? Wilms Sep 2015 #3

Look, you're acting like the whole of America is ENAMOURED of Obamacare--they aren't. MADem Sep 2015 #11

I live in the sticks in Alaska and the governor by himself pushed through the expansion roguevalley Sep 2015 #33

That's good. But that's a long, long way from single payer. MADem Sep 2015 #42

Show me polling that suggests majority support for Single Payer Health Care brooklynite Sep 2015 #2

Here you go... Bjorn Against Sep 2015 #5

Hmm. So half the country agrees with what FLOTUS Hillary Clinton was saying back in the 90s! nt MADem Sep 2015 #12

She was hardly the only person supporting universal care Armstead Sep 2015 #13

Oh. PLEASE. She was the ONLY person heading up a TASK FORCE on the subject in 1993. MADem Sep 2015 #15

No it killed me at the time to watch them screw it up Armstead Sep 2015 #16

Yes, and "Bernie's" task force--they got it done? Never saw anything about that in the paper...? MADem Sep 2015 #17

He wasn't sitting on his ass, nor have millions of others Armstead Sep 2015 #19

He wasn't? What was he doing, besides running his mouth? Talk is cheap. MADem Sep 2015 #20

The failiure of Vermont;s system have nothing to do with Sanders Armstead Sep 2015 #21

Why was he trying to pass it off as a minor bump in the road, then, instead of the abject failure MADem Sep 2015 #23

Wellllll...maybe if we had a decent national systemm to support it..... Armstead Sep 2015 #24

Where's the ACTION? Hillary chaired a task force--all I see is talk, talk, talk, and a can-kick MADem Sep 2015 #27

Oh give it a rest -- I told you i don't feel like a nyah nyah match Armstead Sep 2015 #28

How could they "try again with a better plan?" MADem Sep 2015 #29

Excuses, excuses....there's always excuses. The All Powerful GOP Armstead Sep 2015 #30

You were either too young or your memory is short. MADem Sep 2015 #31

I wish I were too young Armstead Sep 2015 #36

I don't think either Clinton was a scared bunny rabbit. MADem Sep 2015 #38

well said Armstead LeftOfWest Sep 2015 #43

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THE GOP, they are such a handy scapegoat! slipslidingaway Sep 2015 #32

good thing that LBJ didn't give up on his stuff becase of stupid opposition or civl rights roguevalley Sep 2015 #35

Not. The. Same. MADem Sep 2015 #40

If health care abject failure is the topic here, then Hillary wrote the book. roguevalley Sep 2015 #34

OK, cough up "the plan" then. Don't talk in generalities--get us to the place MADem Sep 2015 #41

Okay for what it's worth.... Armstead Sep 2015 #44

That's not real single payer, though. That's more like a hybrid approach. MADem Sep 2015 #45

It's not single payer -- that;s fine wth me Armstead Sep 2015 #46

Well, I think ACA was the first step on a long journey. MADem Sep 2015 #47

Majority still supports single-payer option, poll finds Wilms Sep 2015 #6

Looks like health care satisfaction has been trending DOWNWARD since that poll was taken. MADem Sep 2015 #18

Not hard to find Mnpaul Sep 2015 #9

The support has been there for years, but the corporate media and corporate candidates dismiss ... slipslidingaway Sep 2015 #10

Sorry. Socialism is not a winning platform in the General. redstateblues Sep 2015 #4

Yeah Corporate Oligarchy is much more popular Armstead Sep 2015 #8

They used to call that proposal HILLARYCARE. How soon people forget...! MADem Sep 2015 #14

Amen -- But that'll go through one ear and out the other with some Armstead Sep 2015 #7

And with some it makes a stop in a Waring blender and shot out their pie hole with enough english Juicy_Bellows Sep 2015 #25

They keep trying, and it's just not working because McCarthyism is from history, and not a very part sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #22

I agree, thanks for posting! nt. Juicy_Bellows Sep 2015 #26

Why Congress Did Not Enact Health Care Reform - 1995 slipslidingaway Sep 2015 #37

If we voted with our minds instead of our emotion, we would not be in this mess. McCamy Taylor Sep 2015 #39