To: Olog-hai
Robert Reich : “
While Republicans plot new ways to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, it's easy to forget that for years they've been arguing that any comprehensive health insurance system be designed exactly like the one that officially began October 1st, glitches and all,” said Robert Reich, who served as President Bill Clinton's Labor Secretary.
Reich says Democrats should have insisted on a single-payer system because it would have been “cheaper, simpler, and more popular.”
In a blog at The Huffington Post website, Reich wrote that Republicans have long argued for a health care system based on private insurance and paid for with subsidies and a requirement that the young and healthy people sign up. Democrats, he says, wanted to model health care reform on Social Security and Medicare, and fund it through the payroll tax.
Reich says President Richard Nixon in 1974, “proposed, in essence, today's Affordable Care Act.” Thirty years later, then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, another Republican, “made Nixon's plan the law in Massachusetts.” So when Obamacare fails that just means the GOP has bad ideas.
So time to try the liberals idea single payer.
‘We tried your GOP ideas and they failed. Now give ours a chance’
LOL
18 posted on
10/28/2013 12:30:18 PM PDT by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
To: sickoflibs
And exactly what evidence does the midget moron have that single payer would be “cheaper, simpler, and more popular?”
Uh, Robert - England, Canada, etc.
30 posted on
10/28/2013 1:40:31 PM PDT by
Fledermaus
(Primary and beat the RINO's.)
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