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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Poll question: the 'single payer' talking point edition. [View all]upaloopa
(11,417 posts)17. Over night you just shut them down
all their employees, all their supliers, all their in investors.
Who will administer single payer the next day?
You know Medicare is administered by a private corporation don't you?
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every other modern democracy can afford this, we must be backwards as hell.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2015
#3
uh yeah. You do know that other people have studied exactly what it takes, right?
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2015
#20
It would put health insurance companies out of business. That's one good thing.
arcane1
Sep 2015
#10
How to get it done: same way we got Medicare done, through Presidential leadership
Jim Lane
Sep 2015
#33
If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ...
Scuba
Sep 2015
#29
Many of the HRC supporters here were for single payer before they suddenly were against it.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2015
#15
I am for more strict gun regulation and/or bans than Sanders currently expresses
PowerToThePeople
Sep 2015
#21
again, I agree, but I wanted to keep the choices as simple as possible.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2015
#26
Complete list of countries that have rescinded national health coverage after enactment ...
Scuba
Sep 2015
#28
10ish% percent to the insurance cartel and an employer mandate are groovy though, huh?
TheKentuckian
Sep 2015
#41
I don't really believe Medicare is a best model for a universal health care system
TheKentuckian
Sep 2015
#40