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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (166065)	3/24/2014 12:33:30 AM
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Single payer? I thought liberals were for choice, what happened to that?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (166065)	3/25/2014 1:22:06 AM
From: Paul V.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224729

States might use their state-run exchanges to funnel so many applicants to a single, low-cost insurer that the insurer becomes, in effect, a single payer. Vermont is already moving in this direction, and California may be next. In this way, the Affordable Care Act could become a back door to a single-payer system – every conservative’s worst nightmare. Kenneth, I always perceived that the single-payer system was the intent during the Clinton and Obama administrations. I, during my years as a union negotiator with the union, always had numerous insurance companies competing for our insurance plans for the duration of the contract. I can see the same thing happening within ACA. The numerous insurance companies will if OBama's plan goes as I expect, the Federal ACA Head will negotiate with the numerous insurance companies for the services. Or, this may be the same procedure occurring on the State level. Again, OBama will have out smarted the Republicans. It looks like the Europeans and US are coming on board with economic penalties against Russia. Perhaps we can drive Russian to come to the realization that military power is trumpt by economic power when countries work in collaboration together. It is consensus building that counts.