Say goodbye to Obamacare...

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109. everything good about the ACA has always been vulnerable

The Medicaid expansion was absolutely necessary for the system to function fairly, and the SCOTUS already threw that out by making it optional on a state-by-state basis.

Damn near everything beneficial about the ACA can be (or already has been) de-funded or de-fanged by the republicans, at either the federal or state level.

It's a lousy way to do national health care - too complicated for people to easily understand, too corruptible, too weak, too favorable to private insurance, a fat target for republicans to campaign against, and in a few years it will be effectively destroyed through judicial and legislative mistreatment (although some vestige will remain so the GOP can continue railing against "Obamacare&quot . It will pave the way for something better.

i do believe that some of us will live to see a president and a congress unite behind a simple single-payer system. It will be popular, and once established, politically suicidal to attempt to damage it. It will be a gateway to national health and prosperity. Until then, life will continue to be difficult and sad for far too many of us.