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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: inherit;" class="">My rant this morning:</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">Forgive my lack of enthusiasm for Bernie's successful vote on Single Payer Healthcare, which though better than what we currently have, is still flawed, covering only 80%, and with deductibles as high
as $6,700. It is not what other developed nations provide.</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">Bernies' one small step for mankind is a very small step indeed. <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br class="">
It provides little if nothing for the next four years, which will keep those five Democratic Presidential hopefuls who supported his bill, with enough support for their campaigns, and discussion of the details, to keep us all distracted from the realities of
our drowning nation.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: inherit;" class="">According to "left" economist Dean Baker, we don't want to scare people too much, he is referring of course to the powers that be, who are supported by the medical and pharma industries. Yes, we
wouldn't want to scare our government now would we?<br class="">
Yet, he has no problem scaring the working class when he insists, rightfully so, that the middle or working classes, not the wealthy will be taxed to pay for it, the elephant in the room, that Bernie has failed to address, that of how to finance it, will be
debated endlessly over the next four years, with it likely failing.</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">No one, not one person on "The Real News" or elsewhere has mentioned our military budget which is eating middle class/or working class taxpayers alive, is what we should be focused on in respect to
paying for a "universal healthcare system" as other nations possess.</p>
<p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">What we have is another example of Americans being forced to scramble for crumbs.</p>
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