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[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Still, "everybody should get Medicare" is a pretty straightforward concept, and that's the level of specificity we're talking.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

But look what actually happened when Obama tried to implement a much more modest reform of the health insurance system - it would be an understatement to say many people were not happy.

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[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

That was the companies fighting back, firing up the propaganda machine, forming people's beliefs on one side or the other. It wasn't about the facts.

If it was, you would just build a public healthcare system.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago*

It comes down to voters being against the policy, unlike what the OP claims. You think those voters were fooled, but they probably think you were fooled and they gave the Republicans 63 seats in the House of Representatives and 6 seats in the Senate in 2010.

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