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Originally Posted by dc_dux
In fact, what Obama had said was that if he were to start from scratch, he would support a single payer system...but he also said repeatedly that the employer-based system works for the most part and the intent is to build on that foundation to make universal care more affordable and accesible.
Citing a handful of legislators who want a single payer system doesnt change the fact that the general proposal that Obama offered to Congress and the current bills under consideration are nowhere close to a single payer system.
There is no socialist type plan in the works.
Scare tactics.
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This is simply not true. I hate to break the rules, but here's the link.
He clearly states that the goal is to create a public option that will eliminate the private option in 10,15,20 years.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
if you read the post you quoted, cimarron, you'd have understood that i didn't say *avoid* i said *enact the problem*--and by *enacting the problem* i meant grinding a coherent debate to a halt with a series of "plans" based entirely in some libertarian fantasy world and insisting that they be understood as actual plans, when the fact is they aren't.
this is now officially tiresome.
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My God, I wish I was as smart as you.