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One of the reasons that I am a strong proponent of a single-payer, Medicare-for-all proposal is that it is much less complicated than what we are going to end up with in Congress. A single-payer approach saves hundreds of billions of dollars a year because you don't end up with thousands of different health insurance programs appealing to all different kinds of people and costing a fortune to administer. I am going to continue the fight for single-payer. I am cautiously optimistic that we may end up with legislation that will allow states to go forward with single-payer if they want to.




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Pennsylvania Ready to Go! by Jack and Kathie Hendricks on Saturday, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:48:52 AM
Providing parents of CHIP beneficiaries the same coverage. by dougontrack on Saturday, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:11:32 AM
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Health Care a CPS Operation? by Steven G. Erickson on Saturday, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:39:04 PM
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