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tkmorris

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34. That's why you push as hard as you can for it

Sat Nov 1, 2014, 03:10 PM

Nov 2014

Of course they won't do it. But you keep making the case, loudly and publicly, again and again. Bring it up every chance you get, and when stories like this appear in the media you stand up tall and proud and make the case why it's necessary. Find ways to bring it to a floor vote, knowing it will be defeated, just to get them on record as against it. Hang them with those votes and get new Senators in their place. MAKE IT AN ISSUE THAT WON'T GO AWAY, and slowly, inch by inch, swing the public to understand why we need to have it.

Then, one day in the not too distant future, you win. But none of that happens if you don't try.

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Unable to Meet the Deductible or the Doctor [View all] eridani Nov 2014 OP

in wisconsin without medicaid expansion-policy options where not really good dembotoz Nov 2014 #1

Single payer! FlaGranny Nov 2014 #2

yup handmade34 Nov 2014 #4

I'm sure the next senate will get right on that. nt Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2014 #6

We had 60 votes in the Senate and still couldnt get it done davidn3600 Nov 2014 #8

Yup, and I do blame Obama for kowtowing to the Blue Dogs Lydia Leftcoast Nov 2014 #12

A huge reason the party got trounced in 2010 Doctor_J Nov 2014 #28

I blame Joe Lieberman annabanana Nov 2014 #35

That's why you push as hard as you can for it tkmorris Nov 2014 #34

Yes, that's how we got women's suffrage Lydia Leftcoast Nov 2014 #44

As it stands now, never. The ACA has made it nearly impossible Doctor_J Nov 2014 #23

Tragic. MadrasT Nov 2014 #3

Were you one of the Cassandras warning against this back during the law's debate? If so Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2014 #7

I was one of the ones who argued that Obama was caving again Lydia Leftcoast Nov 2014 #13

Lydia, you've always made some of the most thoughtful and perceptive posts on this topic suffragette Nov 2014 #17

The junk plans are making a comeback anyway Doctor_J Nov 2014 #24

oh c'mon. Affordable Crap Act is the greatest thing ever in the history of mankind. because obama! KG Nov 2014 #5

McConnell LOVES you. nt tridim Nov 2014 #10

No one ever thought that. FlaGranny Nov 2014 #11

He'd been in the Senate and still thought the Republicans had good will? Lydia Leftcoast Nov 2014 #14

Oh, so it's all the "troglodytes" fault and nobody ever gloated over having health insurance? Corruption Inc Nov 2014 #22

It's a step in the wrong direction Doctor_J Nov 2014 #25

Not all bad. FlaGranny Nov 2014 #43

K&R N/T UglyGreed Nov 2014 #9

I've been saying this all along. LWolf Nov 2014 #15

+1 liberal_at_heart Nov 2014 #16

My sister is in the same boat. RiverLover Nov 2014 #18

I've paid $5,000 out of pocket this year madville Nov 2014 #19

$923 for a blood test, fighting with insurance companies. That's the ACA Doctor_J Nov 2014 #27

How bad is it? woo me with science Nov 2014 #20

It isn't perfect I admit Jim Beard Nov 2014 #21

It's not a start Doctor_J Nov 2014 #26

Come guy, please read Jim Beard Nov 2014 #30

The question that always needs to be asked -- and answered -- in cases like this, SheilaT Nov 2014 #29

the whole purpose of ACA was to allow ICs to dump sick people... quadrature Nov 2014 #36

No. The point was to allow people to get coverage who'd never been able to get it before. SheilaT Nov 2014 #39

In my sister's case, RiverLover Nov 2014 #40

If she lost her coverage due to a pre-existing condition, SheilaT Nov 2014 #41

They dropped the whole state of Texas RiverLover Nov 2014 #42

Con on folks Jim Beard Nov 2014 #31

This message was self-deleted by its author uppityperson Nov 2014 #32

ACA was never 'healthcare reform'; ACA was at most 'health insurance KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #33

Yup. That's me. progressoid Nov 2014 #37

I was on that position last yr and it is awful. This yr have very good coverage though I have had uppityperson Nov 2014 #38

Agreed Mr Dixon Nov 2014 #45