If you want to screw the ACA, do you want the disabled to be charged more for insurance than others?

[Hoyt]

132. There were Dems that had to be "bribed" to vote for ACA, they would not have gone for single payer.

And, a whole lot of people -- including some Democrats -- would have raised holy hell like we have never seen if single payer was enacted.

It may be what we need, but folks weren't ready for it. Nor, would they have accepted the premiums or taxes necessary to fund it.

It is sad, but a fact. The bright side is that at some point folks are going to realize that we tried with minimal changes to our traditional approach to healthcare and it didn't work. I can see, even the Republicans, at some point accepting a public option like Medicare or Medicaid. That point will probably be when they can't bash Obama anymore and want to put their name on a health care bill.

When the ACA was passed, we were very close to getting nothing like Hillarycare in the early 1990s. It was almost 20 years before anyone would touch that again.