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Health Reform: Gotta Love Rep. Bernie Sanders
Time’s Karen Tumulty tweeted this clip with the comment that this is why God made C-Span. It must also be why God made Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who never ceases to be a truth-teller among politicians who…well, nuf said.
True enough I have been supporting HCAN, an advocacy group promoting President Obama’s proposed dual system of both employer or privately paid and public health care plans. They believe it’s the best we can do, and they might be right. I’ve argued with them and anyone else who will listen that until everybody is in the health care insurance pool under a single payer system, we aren’t going to bring the cost of health care down significantly, nor will we end the often inhumane, patchy current system of coverage.
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