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"From the moment we passed that signature legislation (Obamacare), Mike called it a disgrace." — former Vice President Joe Biden
Bloomberg said exactly that in a speech at Dartmouth College a few months after the Affordable Care Act passed in March 2010. This claim rates True.

In a video of the speech we reviewed, Bloomberg was unsparing. "We passed a health care bill that does absolutely nothing to fix the big health care problems in this country. It is just a disgrace," he said. "The president, in all fairness, started out by pointing out what the big problems were, but then turned it over to Congress, which didn't pay any attention to any of those big problems and just created another program that's going to cost a lot of money."

Those aren’t standalone remarks. As recently as 2014, Bloomberg called the law "really dysfunctional" during remarks to a financial industry trade group.

Sanders has received the most donations of any Democratic candidate from the entire health care sector, which includes the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance industry, hospitals/nursing homes and health professionals.

TheCatt wrote: Biden attacks Bloomberg, but Bloomberg is 100% right.

TheCatt wrote: I wonder why?

Troy wrote: There seems to be a lot of Sanders support in California, as you would probably expect. He legitimately seems to be on a roll with endorsements and polling. The youth and diversity of the crowd at his speech this week in my new hometown was impressive.

GORDON wrote: I disagree. Costs are jacked up BECAUSE of insurance.

GORDON wrote: Used to be able to, before people stopped understanding what "insurance" was for. Prices haven't been natural since... the 70s?

Cakedaddy wrote: If hospitals stopped taking insurance, they wouldn't get paid any more and they would go out of business.

GORDON wrote: .......... all I'm saying is that "insurance" has caused medical costs to be abnormally high. Do you disagree?

TheCatt wrote: Healthcare spending in the US is $10k/person. Even if we drop it down to the Canadia/European average, it's $6k/person/year. 60% of Americans don't have $1,000 for an emergency.

GORDON wrote: Insurance can still exist, but without the government cash infusion it would be forced to be MUCH more efficient.

Leisher wrote: but is this a new trend or has it always been this way?

The largest super PAC that supports Republican Senate candidates will say in a filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) late Thursday it spent millions of dollars to boost a liberal Democratic candidate running for the right to face Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) in November.

The Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC run by close allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), will reveal in the FEC filings that it was behind a secretive new group created earlier this month that has spent millions on television advertising ahead of the March 3 Democratic primary, The Hill has learned.

Those advertisements touted state Sen. Erica Smith (D), a candidate who has raised about $210,000 for her campaign. Smith is the more liberal candidate in the field, openly embracing "Medicare for All" and the Green New Deal.

She is also an African American candidate running in a state with a primary on Super Tuesday, a day when the bulk of the North Carolina's Democratic presidential primary electorate will be African American.

But she is not the favorite of national Democrats, who back former state Sen. Cal Cunningham (D) as their strongest potential nominee against Tillis.

The FEC reports will show the Senate Leadership Fund spent about $3 million on television and radio spots boosting Smith, funneled through a group calling itself the Faith and Power PAC. The filings show the entirety of the Faith and Power PAC's contributions came from the Senate Leadership Fund.

TheCatt wrote:

GORDON wrote: Insurance can still exist, but without the government cash infusion it would be forced to be MUCH more efficient.

And, yet, wholly government "cash infused" programs are much more efficent than ours.
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TheCatt wrote: Remember when people could go to college on minimum wage? Or buy a house with an average of 3-5 years of income? Things have changed. Also, people used to just die when they had cancer or heart disease, now we treat them (exaggerating for simplicity).

"fuck you Iowa"

"It wasn't Iowa"

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