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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (15891)4/1/2010 10:35:18 AM
From: Alighieri2 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
...it was the liberals who wanted single payer and who ended up proposing what we ended up with were what stood between us and what we SHOULD have.

That's disingenuous...the entire bill was under threat of a republican filibuster hence 60 required to pass anything at all...when a couple of conservative dems (and lieberman) were shown to be against single payer there was no way to put in the proposal. Now, I think you know that, but maybe You miss my point, either intentionally or otherwise.

And if he's unable or unwilling to recognize an attempt at analysis and mutual understanding but rather treats every overture as opposition even when it's not.

It's not difficult to look around the world and observe that single payer produces lower health care costs. That's supported by lots of data. The rest is indeed speculation (CBO estimates, how the current bill will destroy jobs, reduce benefits, etc on all the other wild claims that have been made by both sides). So if costs are what will break the bank, then I struggle to understand the opposition to means that have been clearly demonstrated to work...the only thing that's left to justify the heated rhetoric is politics, and there the GOP made its views quite clear (Jim Demint, et al).

Al
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