Re:The Obama Administration Has Embraced Legal Theories Broa...
by criley2 on Friday April 08, 2016 @04:20PM
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> There was a time when the ACA was about a single payer healthcare system.
I don't think there was ever a time when the ACA was about single payer.
I think you're confusing it with a separate alternative bill progressives championed during the healthcare reform period that we called the Medicare for All Act (H.R.676 - United States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act.
We pushed hard for our vision of a national health care system and just about all progressives in Congress agreed with nearly 100 co-sponsors, but ultimately the centrist democrats and their new centrist President chose a path of "compromise" with conservatives who did not have any interest in compromise.
It makes me sad. If conservatives were going to wage a scorched earth red scare propaganda war against any health care reform, why not ACTUALLY achieve a national health care system and give their red scare complaints merit?
I don't think there was ever a time when the ACA was about single payer.
I think you're confusing it with a separate alternative bill progressives championed during the healthcare reform period that we called the Medicare for All Act (H.R.676 - United States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act.
We pushed hard for our vision of a national health care system and just about all progressives in Congress agreed with nearly 100 co-sponsors, but ultimately the centrist democrats and their new centrist President chose a path of "compromise" with conservatives who did not have any interest in compromise.
It makes me sad. If conservatives were going to wage a scorched earth red scare propaganda war against any health care reform, why not ACTUALLY achieve a national health care system and give their red scare complaints merit?