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Reply #27: Surely, you joke. Single payer was never on the table. [View All]

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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 12:58 AM
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27. Surely, you joke. Single payer was never on the table.
Edited on Mon Jan-18-10 01:02 AM by No Elephants
Yet, it is the only plan discussed that was eligible for the budget reconciliation method.

Pending in the House since 2003, with almost 100 sponsors, none a one of whom even bothered to get it as far as the Congressional Budget office. Further, the President took it off the table from the primary forward.

And Sanders just about spelled it out: There are not the votes to pass single payer.
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