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Sunday, February 11, 2007"What unites us here today is our shared belief that it will be a far greater America when we get affordable health care for all Americans," Andy Stern, president of the union, said at a news conference Wednesday. And no one would dispute that. But what precisely are these powerful economic forces seeking? At this point, not even they seem to know. "It's symbolic -- all these people coming together," Dave Tovar, a Wal-Mart spokesman, told me Thursday. "Now we need to get some ideas on paper and figure out how we're going to do this." Jeesh. You'd think they were politicians or something. And by the way, it's extremely naive to think that a single-payor system would save money by cutting paperwork. Our current government-run programs are the most paper-work laden insurance plans we have. posted by Sydney on 2/11/2007 07:51:00 AM 1 comments 1 Comments:You're missing the point. The "plan" is to relieve them of providing healthcare and put it on to the individual taxpayer. They don't care the specific methodology, they care about the result. By 11:47 AM , at |
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