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And where did they get the political capital to do that? They got it from the approximately half of society that they could pander to by saying "look, we did t
by potato3732842 1y ago
And where did they get the political capital to do that?
They got it from the approximately half of society that they could pander to by saying "look, we did that, vote for me and I'll take it even farther" at the next cycle.
The ACA is going to go down in history as something that caused some yet unknown number of decades of suffering because it was just barely too much just barely too soon. If they'd have kept it in their pants another decade or maybe even less, or legislated a more incremental solution at the time we'd probably be 5yr into something workable by now.
- mystraline 1y agoAnd some of us remember that asshole, Lieberman, was the one who blocked the Public Insurance option (aka universal insurance fund, a type of single payer). And he also blocked having medicare/medicaid from again negotiating for drug costs. I keep saying, cause its true: this is a republican plan, pushed by republican governor, and by a republican thinktank, branded as socialist because a black democrat had the audacity to push it.
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