But we're not anymore

...agreed wholeheartedly that it was a failed compromise and declared not-for-profit, single-payor universal health care the only answer.

Not everything is an f-ing commodity.

What we failed to do then, we must do now: start the drumbeat and build the political will to get it done!

More from a post way back when:

https://www.greatergoodusa.com/issues/universal-health-care/

Advocating for the ultimate goal, loud and proud, alters the boundaries of possibility and makes successive steps that get us a hell of a lot closer a reality.

If, for the last 15 years, our party had kept up the drumbeat and kept making the case that ACA was a necessary, but deeply flawed compromise, and kept making the case for a single-payer replacement, we may have achieved it by now.

Something that our party needs to learn is that you don't build the political will for long overdo reforms by following the doctrine of "can't win, so STFU about it."

It removed lifetime caps. It mandated minimum coverage. Insurance companies lobbied heavily against the ACA. The ACA has serious flaws, but it wasn't a give away to insurance companies.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/06/25/busted-health-insurers-secretly-spent-huge-to-defeat-health-care-reform-while-pretending-to-support-obamacare/

My current ACA plan, which I am about to lose, costs $1200/month in premiums, and still entails ample deductibles and co-pays.

$1000 is paid by the gov't. I pay $200. The gov't mainlines $1000/month to CIGNA on my behalf.

It's been viable for me, but it's not good. And what good it does is about to be lost.

Now is the time to push for universal care, and for the Dems to run on it as a platform.

Now it is $194 a month, next year it will be $1,200 which is about 33% of my income. MAGA wants to bankrupt us the kill us in that order.

I'm so angry 100% of the day and night I can't see straight. My whole life I've lived like it is the great depression and have gone without everything/anything since I have always been fearful of not having insurance since I am sickly. Now those savings will be used for health insur.


No eating out, ever! Only 4 trips abroad. Cut my own hair. Cook all my own food to save money. Recycle everything. Buy only store brands and read every label. Never throw food out. My last smartphone was 6 years ago. My car is 15 years old. I don't buy clothes. I buy "old" produce which is cheaper, no entertainment, no movies or concerts, etc

I should be rewarded for my efforts over 63 years, not punished. MAGA are sadists!!!!!

But it hasn't "evolved" to reflect the current crises

Next step - get rid of the middleman insurance companies

DURec

I'm sorry, but decades of demanding a single-payer system with absolutely nothing to show for it is not going to cut it.