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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRichard Painter: Fiscal conservatives need to take the single payer argument seriously.
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Fiscal conservatives need to take the single payer argument seriously. Health care costs are crushing small businesses and American families. Overhead and waste is huge. And millions still with no insurance. Congress needs to fix this mess.
http://www.stltoday.com/opinion/mailbag/single-payer-system-would-improve-health-care-economics/article_df0b711b-740f-5b51-8ae7-2111d59d77fc.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share via @stltoday
http://www.stltoday.com/opinion/mailbag/single-payer-system-would-improve-health-care-economics/article_df0b711b-740f-5b51-8ae7-2111d59d77fc.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share via @stltoday
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Richard Painter: Fiscal conservatives need to take the single payer argument seriously. (Original Post)
highplainsdem
May 2018
OP
Never underestimate a conservative's ability to put mean-spirited-ness before principle and...
Anon-C
May 2018
#3
My single payer is wonderful - the VA. I'd be dying or dead without the wonderful treatment...
marble falls
May 2018
#6
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)1. Painter is right.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)2. Wow, he may be an actual Democrat.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)3. Never underestimate a conservative's ability to put mean-spirited-ness before principle and...
...common sense!
area51
(11,911 posts)4. We need
salin
(48,955 posts)5. My repub sibling who is a doctor - has said this for a decade.
The only way to have a force large enough and forceful enough to hold costs and stem the gouging is a single payer system.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)6. My single payer is wonderful - the VA. I'd be dying or dead without the wonderful treatment...
I get.
procon
(15,805 posts)7. From a business standpoint, you'd think Republicans would be the real trailblazers
on single payer.