Chelsea Clinton: Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare

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If we ever got single payer in America, it would almost certainly be a half-assed version of Canada's system, which is pretty half-assed already.

Canada's health care system was barely ahead of the US before the ACA by WHO rankings. Give it a few more years for the Obamarage to fade and Republicans to move on from intentionally sabotaging it, and we'll pass Canada in the rankings and never look back. Who needs single payer when Obama has given us something better?

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Huh? She's not attacking Sanders on universal healthcare. She just disagrees with him on how to achieve universal healthcare.

By implying Sanders wants to "dismantle Obamacare" without saying that he wants to work toward a single-payer system in which more people rather than fewer people have access to healthcare, she implies (no doubt for political reasons) that Sanders wants to go back to a system in which more people are uninsured. In fact, the opposite is the case. That's disingenuous.

If we had a Canadian style system with all its long waiting lists and overcrowding, the people who are newly insured thanks to Obamacare  would be worse off, not better.

Single payer can be done right, but Canada is not the model to base it on.