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Single Payer Health Systems

Baobab

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10. It has to be! (fake single payer, that is) Shhhh!!! (Secret!)

Reply to Shagbark Hickory (Reply #7)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 08:17 PM

Mar 2016

Shhhh!!!

Big Secret

So, obviously, its not single payer, how could it be?

So it wont save money, it will cost tons, and collapse in four to five years on schedule, just like all the others.

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