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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders supported the ACA. His support was crucial. [View all]Ninsianna
(1,349 posts)thing that John Dingell (who is 83) and his father who held the seat before him have been trying to make happen, it's 2017 and it's still not looking like it's going to happen.
So, perhaps "popularity" isn't how we should be making laws in this country? How about one with the details worked out, a CBO score and some specifics?
We're not having anything within 8 or even 25 years unless people get beyond the slogans, learn about health care reform and come up with a plan that will work and get the people who will vote that in, into office.
What we have now are slogans and people who are "wild" about "popularity" and don't seen to understand how government works and why solid policy details have to be put into a bill, including funding planks. Also, the repeated attacks on the people who have been favorable towards Universal health care, single payer is only one of many methods to achieve it, is not going to do anything to help achieve it.
Perhaps more homework and less repetition of attacks on Democrats that sound more like Republican attacks rather than allies who actually wish t achieve Democratic ideals, like Universal healthcare coverage and Single Payer?
All this punching left is unproductive and it's leading to dangerous times when people's healthcare coverage is being threatened. Destroying the ACA does nothing to bring about Single Payer, but it does threaten to kill a lot of people who are already dealing with pre-existing conditions, who have been putting off going to the doctor to get diagnosed and who cannot wait for some fantasy of a plan that its creator won't flesh out.