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Single Payor Health Care - Myths and Facts


Alice in Universal Health-Care Land: Myths and Facts

How is this important to us and to the auto industry. Consider this: if all the retirees had health care sponsored by the government, these "legacy costs" wouldn't have to be born by the few remaining active auto workers, and the US companies wouldn't be at such a competitive disadvantage.

I heard ten years ago, though I don't have anything to back it up, that representatives from both the auto-manufacturers and the unions were initially part of the coalition working with Hillary Clinton on the Clinton Health Plan, put after the plan was roughed out, they switched sides and worked against the plan.

That being said, what shaped up as the Clinton plan then was not single payor health coverage, and I'm not even sure that Ms. Clinton was too happy with the results.