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jmowreader

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12. Hillarycare was more similar to Obamacare or Romneycare than to Berniecare
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 06:58 AM
Jan 2016

Hillarycare required everyone to be enrolled in a healthcare plan (provided by the government below a certain income level, and by employers above it), and did some cost containment work. Everyone on both the left and right shredded it - the left wanted single payer, the right wanted the status quo.

The Berniecare system at least seems to feature no deductibles, no copays, no rationing and no, or minimal, cost containment while maintaining the healthcare system as a private sector function. Nothing like it has ever been tried anywhere in the world. The only way this works even at double Sanders' funding predictions is if he nationalizes the medical industry.

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