2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Clinton plans Tuesday meetings with all Hill Democrats [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)A Canadian echoed a process similiar to what HRC did.
Said their first attempt at single payer ended with something like the ACA. But that it took twenty years to get to single payer. Only with a sustained movement that does translate into votes, will it occur. Their foes were the same as ours, he said - the private insurers who didn't want to lose their profit.
There is no honorable way to make profit on healthcare or social programs, but that's just my opinion, and I bring it up in meetings. Since it's taxpayer money even if privatized, and in a just way, that would cover everyone.
Of course some will look at me as if I'd sprouted horns when I say that... They want to make some profit and live well on the public dime, whether the people they are charged to care for, live or die. They still want their cut, like a casino.
Like the damned pre-existing clause. Because everyone will get sick, disabled and or die is part of the human condition, thus pre-existing.
Olbermann did a masterful job on the for-profit health care industry, in a special edition. Of course, corporate media fired him, but not before they slimed him so well that even progressives have swallowed the bait and made it into a personality thing. No, he was let go for telling the truth.
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