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libtodeath

(2,888 posts)
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 09:52 AM Feb 2016

Bernie cant get 60 votes but Hillary can get 31 repuke governors to adopt a public option.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-hillary-clinton-reveals-her-plan-obamacare-20160223-column.html


Clinton's idea is to establish the public option beginning at the state level using existing provisions of the ACA — to "work with interested governors, using current flexibility under the Affordable Care Act, to empower states to establish a public option choice."


"It would, however, need funding," Sprung notes. That's where cooperation between governors and a President Clinton might come in. And that's where the waiver might come in. If the state could find other means of savings, those measures might be integrated in a waiver proposal with a public option. In time, state-level public options could be brought upstream to the federal level and — presto! — you've re-created the original ACA public option.


Yeah,this is going to happen with the current occupants of the state houses.
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Bernie cant get 60 votes but Hillary can get 31 repuke governors to adopt a public option. (Original Post) libtodeath Feb 2016 OP
Bernie is the only progressive in this race who has a plan to get things done. Hillary has NO plan. Kip Humphrey Feb 2016 #1
I have been referred to that article here to see her "plans" and thought huh? libtodeath Feb 2016 #3
Just like she'll magically be able to move legislation though congress.... daleanime Feb 2016 #2

daleanime

(17,796 posts)
2. Just like she'll magically be able to move legislation though congress....
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 10:04 AM
Feb 2016

in between impeachment hearings. A republican congress is only an obstacle to Bernie.

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