>-Expanded health care? What the fuck happened to universal health care?
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>It got defeated.
C'mon, Nathan. Defend Kerry all you like, but show some fidelity to the facts. Clinton's health care proposal was a doomed disaster. Remember the exchange between David Himmelstein and Hillary Clinton?
D: "With 75% in the polls and strong presidential leadership, single-payer could win."
H: "C'mon David, tell me something interesting."
So instead, Clinton proposes some impossibly complicated scheme with heavy private sector involvement and almost no political support. That got defeated, not a real universal health insurance program.
Doug