• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    I don’t agree. They waited until they lost a supermajority in congress to push healthcare reform (what became Obamacare). And dang, wouldn’t you know it, mean old republicans wouldn’t let us have single payer.

    So we got a healthcare bill that mandated we buy (generally) private market insurance. A bill written by Penny Pritzker, an insurance industry lobbyist.

    It’s kabuki. There’s only one party — the billionaire party.

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      “The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them,”

      ~ Julius Nyerere.