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Re: Unintended Consequences of Obama Halfway Healt (2.00 / 1)


Neither plan excites me.  Neither candidate has offered any hard figures on what "affordable" means for my situation.

I'll take Obama's plan for now so I at least have the option to buy into it or not, vs the mandates without any specifics on what "affordable" means or how much $ help in tax credits I'd be entitled to.

I know Obama favors single-payer, but we can't get there in one giant leap.
 


by neonplaque on Sat May 17, 2008 at 11:44:50 AM EST

Re: Unintended Consequences of Obama Halfway Healt (2.00 / 1)

I know Obama favors single-payer, but we can't get there in one giant leap.

I call BS on that. He talked in favor of single-payer back when he was a state senator in a very progressive district, but now he has completely run away from that position, even to the extent of falsely denying that he ever did support single payer as a viable approach to health-care reform.


Fortune strums a mournful tune for those whose campaigns peak too soon. --Bored of the Rings
by Inky on Sat May 17, 2008 at 01:03:03 PM EST
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HR 676 (none / 0)

we can get there in one single leap, we already have 78 sponsors.


by Alice Marshall on Sat May 17, 2008 at 01:16:18 PM EST
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Which means that we are only 140 votes shy.

I'm all in favor of single-payer, but it's never going to pass in our lifetimes -- and certainly not if Obama is President since he will do nothing to advocate it, or even genuine UHC.


Fortune strums a mournful tune for those whose campaigns peak too soon. --Bored of the Rings
by Inky on Sat May 17, 2008 at 01:21:06 PM EST
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Then a LOT of people are going to have to move (none / 0)

out of the country. Because they can't afford to live here anymore.

Maybe that's what they want.


Universal healthcare IS a core Democratic value
Without a REAL committment to it, we WON'T win in November.
by architek on Sat May 17, 2008 at 05:05:30 PM EST
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