"For awhile, Democrats controlled the Presidency and the House, and the Senate Democrat caucus had a cloture-capable 60 vote supermajority. They didn't need a s

"For awhile, Democrats controlled the Presidency and the House, and the Senate Democrat caucus had a cloture-capable 60 vote supermajority. They didn't need a single GOP vote for anything. For ACA, no GOP amendments were even given the dignity of a simple up/down floor vote." What crocodile tears! Democrats bent over backwards to convince moderate Republicans to support the bill, and adopted many changes in committee. No GOP senators were going to be caught dead actually voting for an amendment on the floor, so they made their changes in private. Plus, Scott Brown's election meant that the law couldn't be amended or reconciled anyway. But this has nothing to do with Medicare-for-all: it was killed because Joe Lieberman refused to vote for any bill containing such a provision. So if even one GOP senator had supported the idea, we'd all have access to Medicare. I made a factually true statement.