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Mike 03

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6. You're addressing a lot of people who do want M4A but our argument is how can he get it

Reply to berni_mccoy (Original post)

Tue Feb 25, 2020, 03:17 PM

Feb 2020

passed, and your OP and the responses saying "People have been trying since the 40s" don't exactly instill great confidence.

How is the fact that people have been trying for eighty years to get this done and can't a rational argument for Bernie?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Ted Kennedy Introduced Medicare For All Every Session of the Senate He Served In [View all] berni_mccoy Feb 2020 OP

Yep. The attacks and vitriol are astounding. oregonjen Feb 2020 #1

Hillary Clinton was on it in 1993. Sparkly Feb 2020 #2

+1 lunasun Feb 2020 #15

Truman was on it in the 40s IronLionZion Feb 2020 #3

Well yeah, sure, but I'm confident in all of those sessions, even those under Republican control Tom Rinaldo Feb 2020 #4

If Ted Kennedy, who was a member of a party that held roughly half the seats.... George II Feb 2020 #5

Maybe he won't. But if he/we can move the ball forward, he/we should Tom Rinaldo Feb 2020 #8

You're addressing a lot of people who do want M4A but our argument is how can he get it Mike 03 Feb 2020 #6

Are you still supporting Warren? HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #7

How dare they act like Democrats. Harrumph. gibraltar72 Feb 2020 #9

His plan didn't include abolishing private insurance frazzled Feb 2020 #10

It would effectively do that. berni_mccoy Feb 2020 #11

Jimmy Carter Blames Ted Kennedy For Killing Earlier Health Overhaul Jose Garcia Feb 2020 #12

They also had a grudge berni_mccoy Feb 2020 #13

More concern than the big tax break to wealthy or last military increase .Post after post against it lunasun Feb 2020 #14