Senate voting on single payer health system now. We already know the outcome!

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1. How's it going?

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2. Republican Amendment

Sanders calls GOP single-payer measure a 'sham'

WASHINGTON — The GOP-led Senate is taking up a “Medicare-for-All” measure Thursday – and Sen. Bernie Sanders, calling it a "sham," couldn’t be more irritated by it.

“I think this is another joke, another game, another sham, that’s part of a horrendous overall process,” the Vermont independent railed from the Senate floor.

Sanders, long a champion of a single-payer approach to health care, said the GOP move is an “old political trick” designed to embarrass Democrats as the Senate debates legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare.

During a 45 minute Senate floor speech, Sanders said he will not support the amendment from Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., unless Daines and other Republicans support it, as well.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/27/sanders-calls-gop-single-payer-measure-sham/516858001/