https://www.vox.com/2017/7/26/16048136/bernie-sanders-daines-single-payerQuote
The Washington Examiner reported Wednesday night that Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) is planning to propose an amendment during debate this week to create a single-payer health care system.
Daines doesn’t support single-payer. But his amendment is an attempt to splinter the Democratic caucus and expose the minority party’s divisions on how to reform the health care system.
OK, I don't care if he doesn't support it, but I do care that it will be introduced.
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Over the past few weeks, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have all voiced their support for “Medicare-for-all.” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) told Vox’s Ezra Klein in April that he believes, “ultimately, in ideas like single-payer or ‘Medicare-for-all.’”
But there’s still not much appetite in the party to talk about single-payer right now. Instead, Senate Democrats say their focus has to be on defending the Affordable Care Act. “I’m optimistic the people of our country could rise up and demand a single-payer system, but right now we’re still fighting the battle of making sure they don’t succeed in repealing Obamacare,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) told me outside the Capitol on Tuesday. “I support single-payer — but in this environment? In this environment?”
In other words, Senator Sanders is whipping his Senate colleagues in opposition to single payer because it came from Republicans. No other reason than it came from "the wrong party" - The Democrats will continue to lose by placing party over country.
I supported Senator Sanders in the 2016 primary, but I'm done with this sellout and the shitty corporatist hyper-partisans he's attached himself to.
This post was edited by inkanddagger on Jul 27 2017 12:13pm