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Cleita

(75,480 posts)
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 09:51 PM Jan 2016

Pfft. Howard Dean is dead to me. [View all]

He's dissing Bernie's vision of a national single payer health care system stating Hillary Clinton has the practical solution. Hillary's health care system is what we have now with the ACA, warts and all. Medicare has been proven to work since it was signed into law. Bernie wants to improve it and extend it to all. Howard called Bernie the visionary and Hillary the pragmatist. He said he's chosen the pragmatist.

Single payer is not a pipe dream. It has already been proven to work in many forms and countries including ours. To say it's visionary, like attempting to go to Mars, is very disingenuous of him. I'm done with him.

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I couldn't even watch him on Chris Hayes MissDeeds Jan 2016 #1
And Chris did not push back on him either. Cleita Jan 2016 #2
Couldn't agree with you more swilton Jan 2016 #3
Such bullshit. Dean himself ran on single payer being the most mhatrw Jan 2016 #4
He's got you covered there on the scream. n/t JonLeibowitz Jan 2016 #13
It's not practical, it's more of the same and it's not working for many. Autumn Jan 2016 #5
Protect the oligarchs SmittynMo Jan 2016 #6
Speaking as a Canadian, and abstract from US primary politics: delrem Jan 2016 #7
^This^ zentrum Jan 2016 #9
...lost all respect for him. SoapBox Jan 2016 #8
BUT single payer is not good enough! slumcamper Jan 2016 #10
Well said. n/t winter is coming Jan 2016 #17
Medicare would be changed as well, starting with the elimination of deductibles. eridani Jan 2016 #18
Easy to imagine the conversation... raindaddy Jan 2016 #11
Howie maybe is seeing his VP position opportunity shrinking..... glinda Jan 2016 #12
"He said he's chosen the pragmatist." Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2016 #14
What is wrong with being visionary? blackspade Jan 2016 #15
I have lived, I repeat lived in four countries that had single payer. JDPriestly Jan 2016 #16
Dean is very disappointing off late. Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #19
It's sad. I was a pretty big fan of his in 2008. lostnfound Jan 2016 #20
Money money money - the root of all wrongs is greed. eom Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #23
It is time to turn my Pastiche423 Jan 2016 #21
Take away his millions, and let him learn the real meaning of pragmatism. Zorra Jan 2016 #22
If I received on more "Vote for Hillary" email from him during the DFA vote... emsimon33 Jan 2016 #24
Yep. Ex-Deniac here. Very disappointed. nt Live and Learn Jan 2016 #25
Dean's voting record was never as good as Bernie's. mucifer Jan 2016 #26
I was never a Dean fan. Kalidurga Jan 2016 #27
When I think of us, retirees trudging through a ft of snow in Davenport. Iowa. Peregrine Took Jan 2016 #28
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