Key is stressing at every turn that #singlepayer is CHEAPER for every household, for whole country, than our corporate mess. IT SAVES MONEY.
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Stressing the immense household/national SAVINGS of
#singlepayer doesn't come at the expense of social justice message, it *reinforces* it.
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What do you think about a public option as a way to transition towards single payer?
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As long as this public option is designed *and presented* as a transition to full single payer & not as end-of-the-line, fine.
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Designed, I get. Why do you think the presentation matters?
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Still a minority of voters see fully socialized healthcare as a viable reality. They don't know about Denmark. The IDEA of…
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Don't you think it makes more sense to create a public option that is feasible as a single-payer option and wait until 50% of
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Not too early to name actual goal *now rather than being incrementally too-clever. Change will be slow enough no matter what.
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I'd be concerned naming it would kill incremental progress.
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I don't see that. For instance HRC's incremental reform is result of push from Sanders forthright
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Medicare was spun up in less than a year, covering 19M seniors, using 1960s-era information technology
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With New Deal still a popular living memory and "free mkt" voodoo somewhat marginal, big new social programs easier then than now
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yeah I've been on that 30-yr media diet where I've been told I'll never, ever see one thin dime of Soc Sec earned benefits
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@dizzyeyes Under the ACA, we pay $30K/year for insurance, non-covered care. Race to see whether our savings last until Medicare.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@dizzyeyes The current system is only slightly better than the one before it, and unsustainable. Only single payer is truly just.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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=> "know-nada resentniks"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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