Obama just launched single-payer in America

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104. I was just talking to a fellow DUer I met last night about this

I was so mad at him for ACA in the beginning but I'm wiping egg out of my eyes. He pulled the marriage equality card. Start the ball rolling and get one of the states to add onto it and who else but Bernie's Vermont. I love his quote. "The quickest route toward a national health care program will be when individual states go forward and demonstrate that universal and non-profit health care works, and that it is the cost-effective and moral thing to do.”

President Obama is third way, he is a corporatist. He's just like the Clintons and even like Gore before he understood what the score was. And yet, his legacy may well be that he started Single Payer. And if so, I do not begrudge him that at all. I do hope he shares the accolades with his deserving socialist colleague.

I couldn't see past the problems in the beginning. Now, I can see right past them onto the other shore and that other shore is single payer, Medicare for All. What I wanted.

This is my official apology for being a shit about ACA. Forget 12 dimensional chess. It's a Jenga move.