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Barack Obama

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5. Essentially, every complaint about ACA is quieted by Medicare for All.

Reply to steve2470 (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 19, 2014, 11:00 AM

Mar 2014

Even the "we can't afford it" objection is overcome by expansion of the risk pool, since Medicare in its present form is skewed toward end-of-life care, the most expensive kind.

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If President Obama had his way, single payer would be law today [View all] steve2470 Mar 2014 OP

I agree. Aristus Mar 2014 #1

Medicare for All needs to be the campaign slogan for 2014. Loudly Mar 2014 #2

here are my thoughts steve2470 Mar 2014 #3

Essentially, every complaint about ACA is quieted by Medicare for All. Loudly Mar 2014 #5

I agree with you steve2470 Mar 2014 #6

The problem (for them) of decrying Medicare as socialism Loudly Mar 2014 #8

they tried to defeat Medicare in 1965 with the socialism scare tactic steve2470 Mar 2014 #13

Totally agree! LostOne4Ever Mar 2014 #4

where he failed was not offering a Medicare "buy in" ebbie15644 Mar 2014 #7

He didn't fail that...it wouldn't have passed.... VanillaRhapsody Mar 2014 #9

He didn't even try ebbie15644 Mar 2014 #11

It would have been a waste of time AND in doing so...might have jeopardized what we VanillaRhapsody Mar 2014 #12

Well said! classof56 Mar 2014 #15

Besides ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2014 #16

Exactly...nothing stopping them from doing it themselves if it were as "easy" as some seem VanillaRhapsody Mar 2014 #18

Agree to disagree ebbie15644 Mar 2014 #17

Sure Sherman A1 Mar 2014 #10

He went for what he could get, now the GOP has proclaimed ACA as a bad bill Thinkingabout Mar 2014 #14

THIS ^^^ is partly HOW he painted them into the corner they are in.... VanillaRhapsody Mar 2014 #19

Yes, they backed themselves into a corner, it is not perfect and they need to work together to do a Thinkingabout Mar 2014 #21

Thank you Steve. sheshe2 Mar 2014 #20

Absolutely. Whisp Mar 2014 #22

seen my thread in GD about no war in Ukraine ? steve2470 Mar 2014 #23

holds my head steve2470 Mar 2014 #24