US NEWS: Hillary Clinton doubled down on her daughter's words today

[cui bono]

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Clinton's Health Care Attack Makes No Sense
The Clinton camp is lambasting Bernie Sanders' health care plan, but its critique is blatantly dishonest.
By Pat Garofalo
Jan. 13, 2016, at 12:40 p.m.


Clinton is lambasting Sanders' proposal for a universal, single-payer health care system. And she's doing it in a pretty dishonest way.

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Clinton's daughter Chelsea got in on the act, too, in an even worse manner, claiming that Sanders wants to "dismantle Obamacare." She said: "I worry if we give Republicans Democratic permission to do that, we'll go back to an era, before we had the Affordable Care Act, that would strip millions and millions and millions of people off their health insurance."

This is mostly rank nonsense. A single-payer system, like it does in many other countries, would cover everybody, period. To say otherwise is either willfully misunderstanding how it would work or simple scaremongering.

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Chelsea Clinton's attack is even worse, making it sound as if Sanders is like the Republicans who call to "repeal and replace" Obamacare without actually drafting a "replace" plan. As former Obama administration adviser David Axelrod said on CNN last night, "Bernie Sanders is proposing single-payer, universal healthcare. You can hardly say he is trying to take health care away from anyone or retreat from Obamacare. He's trying to exceed it. And so it's not really an honest attack."

But Hillary Clinton doubled down on her daughter's words on Wednesday, saying on "Good Morning America" that Sanders would "take everything we currently know as health care, Medicare, Medicaid, the CHIP Program, private insurance, now of the Affordable Care Act, and roll it together.” As she knows, since she is well-versed in health care policy, that's a feature, not a bug of single-payer; the alphabet soup of insurance programs is one of things that makes American health care so confusing and inefficient. Instead of attacking the idea on the merits, she's choosing to make it seem as if Sanders has a callous disregard for people losing health insurance.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/pat-garofalo/articles/2016-01-13/hillary-clintons-bizarre-attack-on-bernie-sanders-health-care-plan

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[Kalidurga]

1. What a maroon

Bernie want's to roll together all these great plans and make them into universal health care. Run for your lives people Bernie will forever change life as we know it.

[cui bono]

3. Yeah, so those who don't think she lies can now think she doesn't understand the concept.

Just what we want in a leader.

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[Motown_Johnny]

11. What a ignoranamous

[Segami]

13. Maroon?.....lol!

[arcane1]

2. "Defender of private health insurance" is not what I'd call a progressive candidate.

[UglyGreed]

4. Right, sounds

kind of like corporations are people too my friend......

[Kalidurga]

5. corporations are people too my friend...

and insurance companies of course have your best interest at heart because they are your friend. Pay no attention to the price gouger behind the curtain.

[Dretownblues]

32. They sure are

And when your family member passes because they won't cover basic healthcare needs, that condolence card goes a long way

[cui bono]

6. Nor is "I represented Wall Street" which she stated in a debate. n/t

[Fuddnik]

16. But, but, you forgot the magic words......

"on 9/11"

[cui bono]

33. Cut it out!

[kenfrequed]

7. Sad and crazy

I am glad a lot of the media is starting to call her out for these ridiculous attacks.

[cui bono]

8. It's about time.

And oddly enough, I don't see much pushback from the Hillary supporters on here like when they tried to explain away the sexist attack.

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[840high]

18. About time.

[Cassiopeia]

9. When your opponent is making a mistake

it's best not to stop them.

[Broward]

10. Lies and distortions are her only hope

since she loses on the merits of her positions. Hopefully, the public sees right through it.

[thereismore]

12. It's a feature, not a bug. nt

[jfern]

14. The Clintons take the low road when they're desperate

And it's a single digit race, so they're quite desperate.

[stillwaiting]

15. Hillary trying to scare people with single payer should lose her some support.

Democrats KNOW it's a much smarter, more efficient, CHEAPER, and more altruistic system. We know it. Even if the Republicans don't.

She will lose support for this, and she deserves to lose support for this.

[fbc]

17. She is a very bad person

And I am glad it's coming out now so plainly before people make the mistake of voting for her.

Shame on you Hillary Clinton!

[840high]

19. Last year there was little

mention of Bernie on most sites I go to. This year they know who he is and what he stands for.

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. She is indeed. I don't like her. She's dishonest and insincere.

And apparently a liar, too.

A family of liars, it would seem.

[PowerToThePeople]

20. Going down in flames.

Privilege blinds people.

[roguevalley]

21. truly spoken, cui bono. I was just watching Joan Walsh formerly of salon

and now with the nation doing the republican thing of walking all over other speakers for Hillary Clinton, blowing the same bullshit. She also let it drop that her DAUGHTER WORKS FOR CLINTON! DOES EVERYONE'S DAUGHTER WORK FOR CLINTON!?

[cui bono]

35. It is somewhat disturbing how many work for her.

The whole system is rigged that way. The bankers/SEC/congress critters have their own revolving door situation. Now you find out all these people related to key media figures or Dem leadership figures, it's all very disheartening. How can the people have any control if we keep electing people who are surrounded by those we are supposed to count on to aid us and give us information?

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[INdemo]

22. There are several playbooks she got this strategy from

1. Bill Clinton's
2.Bill Clinton's
3 Bill Clinton's
4.Karl Rove
5.Lee Atwater.
Bill Clinton outlined the "bashing Obama" strategy in 2008. It didn't work then for Hillary and it wont work now.
How can anyone support a candidate that uses lies and deception in a fury of desperation to try and discredit another primary challenger?
This strategy is usually reserved for a Republican candidate and this could very well be Hillary's 47%
Hillary Clinton has made a bad mistake that she may not recover from and as the old saying goes (you've heard this before Bill)
"She's done shit in her nest"

[passiveporcupine]

23. 1993 signed photo from Hillary to Bernie

Boy do things change when you've got goals.

[Don Draper]

24. This is the slimy side of the clintons that I don't like

She is blatantly being dishonest & trying to confuse people to try to score political points, and as a progressive, it feels insulting. Sure, I will vote for whoever the democratic candidate is for president, but for the life of me, I don't understand how any person who considers themselves a progressive would vote for her in the primaries

[DefenseLawyer]

25. Jesse Jackson won in South Carolina, twice. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

26. ...

[Goblinmonger]

27. How can she say she is a progressive

and say these horrible things to detract from single payer?

She's making it harder and harder for me to want to hold my nose and vote for her if she wins the nomination.

[cui bono]

36. You won't have to. You will be able to proudly vote for Bernie!

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[azmom]

29. Proceed abuelita Clinton.

#unidosConBernie

[hay rick]

30. Foolish attack.

This makes her look desperate and disingenuous.

[Jarqui]

31. Hillary has been lying for a long, long time

Nothing new here.

Published on Nov 9, 2015 POLL: 60% OF AMERICANS THINK HILLARY IS UNTRUSTWORTHY AND DISHONEST

Top first words that come to mind when thinking of Hillary (Quinnipiac)

liar
dishonest
untrustworthy
...
untruthful
deceitful
...
criminal
unethical
...
trouble
deceptive
Benghazi
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arogant
sneaky
crook
corrupt
...
murder
theif
cheat

there's some good words too but a lot of prominent bad words questioning her honesty.

If being a liar could get one elected, this thing would have been over a long time ago. I don't think anyone would dare run against her!

[Douglas Carpenter]

34. I genuinely did not expect this level of dishonesty from her