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Jesse Jackson called the DLC "Defenders of the Leisure Class." Bill Clinton resigned as DLC chair to run for president in 1992. The Clinton administration promptly betrayed the wide-open opportunity to enact single-payer healthcare: David Corn reporting in The Nation magazine, April 26, 1993: "Health Care Reform - Round 1 BIG PLAYERS VS. SINGLE PAYER" . . . "Several national advocates of a single-payer system, including Dr. David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program, sat down with Hillary Clinton in February. She listened attentively, asked smart questions - how would such a system encourage more health providers to perform primary care rather than specialize? - but she gave no indication their presentations would make a dent in her plan, some form of managed competition in which the health care delivery system is organized into large purchasing cooperatives likely to be dominated by insurance companies. "It was evident Hillary is thinking a lot about politics. Can you realistically tell me, she asked, that there are any big powers that support single-payer and that can take on the insurance industry’s lobbying and advertising budget? “I said, ‘About 70 percent of the U.S. people favor something like a single-payer system,’” Himmelstein recalls. “‘With presidential leadership that can be an overwhelming force.’ She said, ‘David, tell me something interesting.’” On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 8:21 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > Useful recounting of Jesse Jackson's earlier attempt to return the DP to > its New Deal roots but in keeping with Jacobin's dead-end politics > refuses to conclude that this is an exercise in futility. > > https://jacobinmag.com/2020/02/jesse-jacksons-political-revolution > > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
