Nader Goes Buchananite (Re: [lbo-talk] Vote Nader/Camejo 2004!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jun 24 10:39:49 PDT 2004


Nathan Newman wrote:


>-Expanded health care? What the fuck happened to universal health care?
>
>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



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