{"id":307010,"date":"2017-05-07T02:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T01:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pelosi-refuses-to-back-single-payer-despite-gop-deathmongering-suddenly-taking-center-stage\/"},"modified":"2017-05-07T02:49:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T01:49:38","slug":"pelosi-refuses-to-back-single-payer-despite-gop-deathmongering-suddenly-taking-center-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pelosi-refuses-to-back-single-payer-despite-gop-deathmongering-suddenly-taking-center-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Refuses to Back Single Payer, Despite GOP Deathmongering Suddenly Taking Center Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democrats are endeavoring to point out that tens of thousands of Americans face a death sentence if House Republicans’ current healthcare plan is signed into law.<\/p>\n

“With the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, it is estimated that 43,956 people will die,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) said Thursday morning, on the House floor. “Long live the Republican Party.”<\/p>\n

But while Dems have shown an interest in saving lives, their leader is wasting an opportunity to advocate for the\u00a027 million Americans<\/a>\u00a0left completely uninsured by\u00a0Obamacare.<\/p>\n

“No, I don’t,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) promptly said, when asked by a reporter if she thinks single payer should be in Democrats’ 2018 party platform.<\/p>\n

“I was carrying single payer signs probably around before you born, so I understand that aspiration,” the House Minority Leader told Vice’s Evan McMorris-Santoro. She then claimed that “the comfort level with a broader base of the American people is not there yet,” with single payer.<\/p>\n

“So I say to people: if you want it, do it in your states. States are laboratories,” the Dem leader added. “States are a good place to start,” she also said.<\/p>\n

Pelosi’s assertions about single payer’s popularity, however, are called into question by public polling.<\/p>\n

Last year,\u00a0Gallup<\/a>\u00a0found that 58 percent of the country wants single payer to replace Obamacare, while only 37 percent oppose such a move. Other\u00a0recent polls<\/a>, too, have found that either a clear majority or plurality of Americans support single-payer. And polling also has shown that the most vociferous advocate of single payer, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is the most popular politician in the country, by\u00a0a wide margin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pelosi’s assertion that “states are a good place to start” is also questionable, given recent history. Sanders’ Vermont attempted to create a single payer system after Obamacare passed, but state officials got cold feet and abandoned the plan\u00a0in 2014.<\/a><\/p>\n

And though House Democrats’ leader was not even open to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(Photo: Michael Fleshman \/ Flickr) Democrats are endeavoring to point out that tens of thousands of Americans face a death sentence if House Republicans’ current healthcare plan is signed into law. “With the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, it is estimated that 43,956 people will die,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) said Thursday morning, on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-307010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}