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Yes we all know that single payer is the answer and we can have that at half the cost as soon as as more than 41% turnout to vote an we get rid of the repub party.

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That's the biggest fallacy of all that you're operating under.

After the 2008 election, because of how districts have been gerrymande­red and elections gamed, Congress was as 'Democrati­c' as it was ever going to be in the foreseeabl­e future. 

The most who would ever (in my lifetime) vote for Democrats turned out (10 million more voters), and you see what Obama did with that: He's continuing just about all BushCheney policies, Republican­-like legislatio­n.

Let's look at your belief that with more than 41 percent in the Senate (and control of the House) we would have single payer.   

Heck, with a majority in the House and Senate we couldn't get a public option!  That's all it takes, all it took, a majority in both chambers.  That's how Obama got his sham 'healthcar­e reform' through in the end.  

We don't have real healthcare reform, single payer or even a public option, because that's not what Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats in Congress want.

A caller on CSpan just a few months ago asked Richard Wolffe, who was out plugging his latest book written from his special access to the Obama White House, if we're ever going to get a public option to keep costs down.

Wolffe makes it clear that Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats never had any intention of going with a public option or expanding public healthcare in any way (although Wolffe is mistaken when he says that Obama never ran on supporting a public option -- Not only did Obama campaign on "a public option", he campaigned on single payer, universal health care -- Here's a campaign ad featuring Obama himself -- See the part where he says he has a plan to "cover everyone'? That's 'universal coverage' -- There's even a graphic in the ad that says "The Obama Plan - UNIVERSAL coverage for all Americans"­.  Obama ran against mandates, and criticized Hillary for them in her campaign promises --  Here is Candidate Obama on mandates -- Here again -- Obama campaigned on public option).

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