It comes down to this...

[Bubzer]

We can either try, or give up cause its just too hard

[Cleita]

1. Recommend.

It's complicated, we can't do it rhetoric shouldn't be coming out of the mouth of a US President, nor a candidate for the Presidency. That's not leadership

[72DejaVu]

2. You can get Medicare in Estonia?

They must not have a tea bagger governor.

[BillZBubb]

3. This was actually the issue that tipped the scales for me to totally support Bernie.

Once the Clinton faction started mocking Sanders for a position that's been at the core of Democratic goals since FDR and Truman, I'd had enough.

How could any Democrat oppose fighting for universal health care? Even if the republicans are going to block it, you've got to fight. Eventually you will win. If you don't fight, guess what?

[freebrew]

4. Too many 1% Dems...nt

[Bubzer]

7. Exactly right.

[peggysue2]

10. Universal Health Care

Is something Hillary Clinton supports. In case you missed it.

[Bubzer]

11. Right...that's why she's saying we can totally get Universal Health Care...oh...wait...no she isn't.

[Ed Suspicious]

12. mmhmm. She just real about it. She knows she can't do it and won't try.

Good thing we have Bernie and his public financing of higher education so we can give it the old college try.

[basselope]

19. No, she supports Universal health INSURANCE. Big difference.

[Bubzer]

27. +1

[Armstead]

21. Universal if you can afford it

[longship]

5. Fingers in ones ears. "La-la-la-la-la NO WE CAN'T!!!"

nt

[MohRokTah]

6. On that issue alone, Hillary all the way.

She's realistic. Sanders is dishonest about the issue.

[Bubzer]

8. "Realistic"... code for: She'll settle for what the corporate masters will allow

[jalan48]

9. Wall Street's Representative says not possible.

[SmittynMo]

13. Can anyone explain as to what is "too hard"?

This is the 21st Century. It shouldn't be we can't do it. It should be why haven't we done it yet?

Anything else is total ignorance, which again leads me to the one I support.

YES WE CAN!!!!

[Ed Suspicious]

14. She don't wanna do it.

[SmittynMo]

17. Again,,,,,

What is so frickin hard?

[appalachiablue]

20. Hey, we don't want to hurt those execs barely getting by in the private

for profit health insurance and Big Pharma industries, and their families, lobbyists and shareholders. C'mon.

[Bubzer]

30. Reminds me of this scene;

[appalachiablue]

34. The way it works as Michael Moore's 'Sicko' reveals. All about the money honey.

Shareholders and profit rule. Remember 'dead peasant' life ins. policies in 'Sicko'?
In 2003, I was having difficulty with a medical claim for a relative's procedure and a friend recommended a nurse who helped get it processed and approved. I remember her saying she used to work 'on the other side' in benefits.

Years later I realized she meant oking or denying claims; I didn't know the industry was that bad at the time. It's really escalated in the last 10+ years, horrible. Something has to be done, the US is failing big in this area and others.

[Bubzer]

36. Agreed. I find it horrifying that the system is as bad as it is.

The idea of profit from pain nauseates me.

[SmittynMo]

32. Just think, if we implement this in 2017,

the taxpayers immediately receive a savings of at least 46 BILLION (their profits in 2015)

[appalachiablue]

35. That would be outstanding, much financial relief & good would come from the savings.

Hope I live to see it.

[A Simple Game]

15. Very nice post.

This is the 21st Century. It shouldn't be we can't do it. It should be why haven't we done it yet?

Very nicely done, I may have to borrow that now and then if you don't mind.

[HillDawg]

18. So you're answer to how can we do it

Is that it's the 21th century? Yeah, let's see Bernie propose that on to a Republican Congress.

[Armstead]

24. If the Democrats fought the GOP as hard as they fight AGAINST liberalism...

we could do it.

[appalachiablue]

29. There's a thought-

[MissDeeds]

16. K&R

[geek tragedy]

22. "if we all stand together" sounds like Obama in 2008. Lesson learned nt

[azmom]

23. We all want the same thing, yet they

Use our own weaknesses to divide us. Fuckers.

[bigwillq]

25. K and R

[Hoyt]

26. Like Clinton, I think we get to universal coverage and even single payer faster by building

upon ACA. Otherwise, we risk getting nothing better than a voucher system, if that.

[Armstead]

31. The ACA is fundamentally flawed

It assumes that private insurance will forever be the foundation of health coverage. And it forces peope to buy their shitty product.

It has set up a complicated and frustrating bureaucracy. It throws people into the shadows. It throws many others into the twilight zone of uncertainty, financial hardship and under-coverage.

It's universal coverage IF you can afford it and don't slip through the cracks.

We may be stuck with it until we set up something better,. But it sucks.

[Hoyt]

33. Actually it does not, especially if you add a public option to it now that the really heavy

lifting is over. Ad long as we have the current Congress and over 40% opposed to giving up their health plan, Medicare for all won't happen anymore than Sanders can claim cancer is beaten.

[Armstead]

37. Tell you what. If Clinton and the Ciongressional Democrats develop the intestinal fortitude to....

actually propose and fight the GOP to the wall for a public option, I'll buy you a brand new car.

Er, not that, but I'll happily eat a heaping helping of crow.

[appalachiablue]

28. K & R. Great post. The block is the private, for-profit 'health care industries'

of course, ultraconservatism, profound anti-govt. and free market policies and propaganda. The tiresome but convenient excuse of the GOP controlled Congress wouldn't be a factor if the DNC and Dem. Party were doing a better job on campaigns, candidates, elections and voter turnout.
The biased, RW, corporate junk Media that's deteriorated mostly from deregulation since Reagan, then Clinton's 1996 Telecom Act is responsible for plenty of the opposition and ignorance.

The US operates 1,000 military bases around the world. We can do single-payer health care.