Not that I favor that, but if the government's going to meddle in the market, let's do something cost-effective.
Not that I favor that, but if the government's going to meddle in the market, let's do something cost-effective.
... I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we should begin drafting a single-payer national health insurance plan" ...Way to capture the vital center of the electorate, you man of reluctant moral courage, you.
Exactly. He advocates something worse than Hilary Healthcare...
Granted, our private insurance system ain't perfect, but it's better than social healthcare. I have friends in the UK that pay for private health insurance even though healthcare there is government funded.
"Gore Admits to the Single-Payor Nationalized Health Care System That He Really Has Believed in All Along."
Oregon Health Plan Defeated Humiliated - 80% to 20%
By Brett Brune, Staff Writer
Stateline.org
November 6, 2002
Voters in Oregon gave a resounding “no” to a proposed single-payer health insurance system Tuesday. But backers of universal health coverage vowed to try again in 2004.
“Everyone seemed to agree that the universal healthcare concept is important,” said Mark Lindgren, president of Health Care for All Oregon. But what critics called flawed and vague language in the proposal turned many people off, he said. Lindgren expected the final count of votes to show that 21 percent of the voters said yes to the plan.