During a quick little interview with Red Alert Politics last week, former DNC Chairman Howard ‘The Screamer’ Dean made some rather revealing comments concerning his stance on the fate of the Affordable Care Act, aka, Obamacare. Dean, supposedly a doctor himself, has not been shy in criticizing the administration and their tactics in passing the immensely controversial bill. But last Friday he seemed to brush aside the individual mandate, a key achievement of the legislation, actually calling it, unnecessary. The interviewer then asked if Dean would like to see the entire bill struck down so that Democrats could then have the opportunity to pass something even more radical.
“I hope the healthcare bill does not get struck down, other than the Individual Mandate, which was never necessary in the first place,” Dean said in response. But he proceeded a bit more cautiously when asked about a single-payer system saying, “The rest of the bill does a lot of things for a lot of Americans.” He went on, ”We’re never gonna see a Canadian-style, single-payer system,“ adding ”This isn’t Canada.” Dean hypothesized that “different single payers in different areas” might reduce healthcare costs but was otherwise non-descript on the issue. Well this isn’t Canada but that fact did seem to keep Dean and his fellow Democrats from trying to turn us into a Canada-like country.
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