Hillary Clinton’s Single-Payer Pivot Greased By Millions in Industry Speech Fees
Hillary Clinton’s paid speech circuit came to an end as her campaign revved up. But for her husband, with whom she shares a bank account, it hasn’t. This summer, he was the keynote speaker at America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the industry group that poured almost $100 million into trying to defeat health care reforms during the fight over the Affordable Care Act.
As part of her newly found opposition to single-payer on the merits, Hillary Clinton’s attacks on Sanders’ health care plan mischaracterize what he is proposing. For example, she has claimed that his plan, which relies on states to administer the single-payer plan, would turn “over your and my health insurance to governors.”
Warren Gunnels, the policy director of Sanders’ campaign, told The Week that actually this is not the case. If a governor chose not to participate, “citizens would receive coverage from the feds.” It’s actually the Clinton-backed status quo under the Affordable Care Act that is allowing governors to pick and choose who to cover.
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/hillary-clinton-single-payer/
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I see this primary fight as a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party. Are we going to settle for the post 1992 Democratic Party of the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council) that the Clintons built? The corporate paid-for party, that occasionally throws a crumb to "we the people" or instead are we going to embrace the party of FDR? A party that is not focused on how much corporate ass it can kiss but rather on building and strengthening our social safety net, rebuilding our infrastructure, and revitalizing the middle-class. This is the crossroads as I see it.
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