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[Lydia Leftcoast]

"And if "Universal Health Care" was so popular then why did Hillary's plan fail?"

Because it wasn't really universal health care but an ungainly, overly-complex monstrosity that was tacked together to avoid offending the insurance companies.

Oregon's universal health care initiative failed because the anti-tax zealots spent millions convincing people that all the "welfare cases" would flock to Oregon if it was passed.

My solution--even though nobody's asking-- would be:

1) Make Medicaid available to everyone who isn't currently covered on a sliding scale based on income. Make sure that the fee charged is noticeably less than what that person would pay to a private insurer for comparable coverage.

2) Watch the private insurers lower their rates to make sure they don't lose all thier customers