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pat_k

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9. Who said single payer or nothing?

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 04:51 PM

Dec 9

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."

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Remember folks, the ACA is at its heart a Republican plan dreamed up at the Heritage Foundation... [View all] Wounded Bear Dec 9 OP

And D's used to be R's... lame54 Dec 9 #1

Back when "they" attempted to repeal it, we should have .. pat_k Dec 9 #2

Just heard on MS-NOW that Ms Crockett will run on Medicare for All...nt Wounded Bear Dec 9 #3

Greater good, my ass. I'd probably be dead by now if we were still demanding single-payer or nothing. W_HAMILTON Dec 9 #7

Who said single payer or nothing? pat_k Dec 9 #9

The ACA put minimums on what insurance companies have to spend on care EdmondDantes_ Dec 9 #4

I disagree. It further solidifies insurance as the mode of healthcare. Intractable Dec 9 #8

That is exactly what I pay, too. BigmanPigman Dec 9 #10

+1 leftstreet Dec 9 #11

It could have been a decent start leftstreet Dec 9 #5

It's also called progress -- and it's much better than what we had before. W_HAMILTON Dec 9 #6