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This plan is the 'clintonism' at its worst
Bill Clinton perfected this 'strategy': stake out a right-of center policy (eg. welfare reform, gays in miltary, DOMA, etc. etc.) and get rewarded by having the right label it "left-wing," therefore pulling the center dramatically to the right. With this move by Hillary Clinton, 'single-payer' has now moved from the center (polls show a majority of Americans supporting it when it is carefully explained to them) to being a far-left pipe-dream. What used to be a right-wing idea is now already being called 'socialized medicine' simply because it's coming from Hillary. The Clinton touch is poison to any true progressive policy debate.