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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 08:25 AM
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23. Do You Know How A Car Rides Until You Get Behind The Wheel
There's a big difference between campaigning and governing...something the rushpublicans failed to comprehend that led to their fall from power. Add to that the economic mess this country ended up as between the primaries and the general election and then afterwards...President Obama walked into a massive mess that have had a major impact on everything this Administration is doing...a tight wire act of trying to make changes without collapsing a corrupt and inept system.

In my state there's a mandatory insurance law...that issue has been beaten to death here. Then there's the mandate of social security that, while not going to a private entity, ends up with them...the government doesn't own hospitals (except the VA...for the few who've earned that care).

I imagine you support single payer...without a mandate, how would that system be able to function? How long would it take for such a system to be up and running and what do we do in the meantime?

Campaign promises are always taken with a the condition that what generates votes and what is doable in a dysfunctional government are two things. Personally, I'm still amazed any bill ever passed...at least there's something to work from now that can be and will be revised.
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