Clinton just slimed Bernie Sanders with a discredited Murdoch attack on single-payer health care
Clinton's attack on Sanders' health plan gets its numbers from a Wall Street Journal story disowned by a key source
by ELIZA A. WEBB
While debating Bernie Sanders last night in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton made an egregiously dishonest claim.
During the candidates’ discussion on college education, Clinton stated that Senator Sanders’ proposals would cost trillions of dollars, saying, “Free college, a single payer system for health, and it’s been estimated we’re looking at 18 to $20 trillion, about a 40 percent [dent] in the federal budget.”
This is flat wrong.
The $18 trillion price tag comes from an article published in the Wall Street Journal. Authored by Laura Meckler, the piece attributes the vast majority— $15 trillion— of this exorbitant amount to Bernie Sanders’ plan to expand Medicare and guarantee care for all sick or injured Americans.
Meckler writes that, “… a similar proposal [to expand Medicaid] in Congress… would require $15 trillion in federal spending over 10 years on top of existing federal health spending, according to an analysis of the plan by Gerald Friedman, an economist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.”
Only problem?
Gerald Friedman himself disagrees.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/12/20/hillary_clinton_just_slimed_bernie_sanders_with_a_discredited_rupert_murdoch_attack_on_single_payer_health_care/
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and doing everything within their power to keep the true People's Candidate from getting much exposure(also for obvious reasons).
The American People are in deep doo-doo and many don't even realize it - and then you have the ones that don't care, it's all good as long as they've got their nut.
and are 100% COrrect!!!
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When the Brought and Sold MSM does the job of fooling the masses at the bequest of Many Benjamin's -- #FoodForThought 
No Fucking THANKS...
Of Sorts..... Then and again.....
If you want four more years of her lyin' and flip-floppin', go to her donate page ... if your wallet is thick enough to make a dent in the pile of Wall Street corporate dough they've got piled up there. 
But just to let you know, saying you will not blindly check the box for whomever is the Democratic Nominee and nothing else, got a Long-Term former Member of this site Banned for Life. 
Manny being kicked is DU's loss, not Manny's
That's the way it rolls in certain places and just wanted to be sure you know.
