Comment: no surprise to us, but the fig leaf is finally off (again)
“In just about seven weeks, people will be able to start buying Obamacare-approved insurance plans through the new health care exchanges.”
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“Reid said he thinks the country has to “work our way past” insurance-based health care…”
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“The idea of introducing a single-payer national health care system to the United States, or even just a public option, sent lawmakers into a tizzy back in 2009, when Reid was negotiating the health care bill.”
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“Eventually, Reid decided the public option was unworkable.”
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“Reid cited the post-WWII auto industry labor negotiations that made employer-backed health insurance the norm, remarking that “we’ve never been able to work our way out of that” before predicting that Congress would someday end the insurance-based health care system.”
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Harry Reid: Obamacare is just a step toward single-payer
Karoun Demirjian
Aug. 10, 2013
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/aug/10/reid-says-obamacare-just-step-toward-eventual-sing/