I support single-payer, but HRC opposes it. I like her, but I think I'll support Sanders instead.

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40. She doesn't say she opposes it for "idealogical" reasons.

Indeed, she doesn't say she opposes it at all. What she says is it won't work here. The way our current healthcare system is, she appears to be correct. Healthcare Reform involves goring a lot of powerful people's oxes and raising taxes. That means huge political resistance.

So what good did Bernie touting single payer do for Vermont? I remember him talking on Breakfast with Bernie on the Thom Hartman Show about how he was going to make single payer work for Vermont and be a model for the rest of the country. That was over 2 years ago. It never happened, even though the Governor and Vermont state legislature supported single payer and even passed a law making it possible. But when the hard work started (figuring out a way to pay for it) Bernie didn't follow through:

Where was Bernie Sanders?

When single payer was a theory, a campaign talking point, and progressive dream, Bernie Sanders was all in. When the Governor and legislature enacted it into law, Bernie Sanders touted it as a model for the nation:

“If Vermont can pass a strong single-payer system and show it works well, it will not only be enormously important to this state, it will be a model,” Sanders said in 2013.

Vermont is without a doubt the most liberal state in the union. It is the only state that has single payer healthcare as law. Bernie Sanders was instrumental in fighting for that law. He made lots of speeches advocating it, much as he is doing now running for president.

But when the time came for the hard work, the difficult task of pushing, cajoling, persuading, 'leading the people' as Sanders likes to say, to get Vermonters and the legislature to accept the necessary tax increases to make single payer a reality, Bernie Sanders was AWOL.

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/27/1397137/-Bernie-Sanders-Single-Payer-Vermont