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We only need to keep the ACA and Medicaid expansion as a transition to a Medicare-for-all system with strict price controls like every other industrialized country in the world, all of whom have better health care access and outcomes than we do. Everyone pays in, especially the 1% who've been bribing politicians into letting them dodge their responsibilities to society for the last 36 years. That needs to be illegal and everyone who takes and gives bribes put in prison. That's what we need but with the GOP in charge, what we'll get is 43,000 people a year dying prematurely due to lack of health care access while their money grubbing corruption continues unabated.

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Yeah, Patriot Freedom John Birch Apple Pie Care

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Key words: EVERYONE pays in. Just how do you think that's going to happen. Ideally, that would be great. The fact is, there will always be people expecting to get something for free.

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I don't need your praise. I just need you to pay for your health insurance and health care yourself. On your own. With your own money. That YOU worked for.

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Why would you assume I didn't already do those things? Praise retracted, JustanothertrumpmfwhothinksIdon'thaveajob

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Funny that Paul Ryan gets to keep his Coupe de Ville plan, even if he isn't re-elected in 2020, while my octogenarian parents are in danger of losing their Buick Skylark plan after paying in for 40 years.

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No, indeed. Some of them are quite average.

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Oh I ain't panicking.

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I like the way you think, son.

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I stand corrected, but lain "False Flag"!

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The panic comment was not aimed at you, just a general statement.

To me, this seems like deliberate background noise. A distraction. I'm reasonably sure the Russians are there solely to hedge their investment in djt. It costs time and money to compromise and groom an asset. Unfortunately for them the asset seems to be self destructing sooner than planned.

They know the American public has a short attention span and no memory, and the 24 news cycle needs new content at all times. This is probably just capitalizing on that.

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"...be team players in the future." By that, of course, they mean, "We will allow you to do everything we tell you to in the future or we will stamp our feet and obstruct you like you were some common blackity-black democrat so-called president."

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You don't know! They could have had some of that marker paint they use on the streets or something and that would be red until the wind picked up or a wave broke.

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My thoughts exactly. Angry teabaggers just didn't like having the Kenyan Usurper as prez, and wanted his pet project killed. Give it a new name with "Freedom" in it and they'll like it just fine.

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Can we see these neoConfederates' tax returns, and will they tell us what they've invested in?

Oh, and can I put a prong collar and a muzzle on the Labrador?

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