For once, focus your bloodlust on Republicans --instead of the DLC/Firebaggers/ANYONE WITHOUT AN (R)

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31. What did we "WIN" ?

In concrete terms.
What have I "won"?

Mandating that every American buy Health Insurance from For Profit Corporations?
A WIN?
I don't see it.

Giving the 1% another nice, big, mandated cut of our tax payer money, right off the top for doing absolutely NOTHING?
A WIN?
..maybe for the Health Insurance Cartel.

Do you know that the Supreme Court struck down the part of the law that mandates the states expand their Medicaid Programs to include everybody below 133% of the poverty line?
This WAS the most expensive piece of the ACA,
and is now "optional" for the states?
This is not a "WIN".

Striking down the President's justification for a Mandate to Buy Insurance under the
Commerce Clause is frightening.
The Commerce Clause IS the constitutional foundation for almost every piece of Democratic Social Legislation since the New Deal, especially those regulating the behavior of Corporations.
Instead, Roberts switched the justification to the government's Power to Tax.

Justice Ginsberg characterized Robert's decision to ditch the Commerce Clause and substitute the Power to Tax as "stunningly retrogressive."
Beware the Trojan Horse buried in Robert's decision.

Everyone keeps shouting and High Fiving saying "This is a step toward Single Payer",
but I must be too stupid or too old to understand exactly HOW we move from,
Every American MUST buy Health Insurance from For Profit Corporations,

TO

Publicly Owned Government Administered National Health Insurance
(the vision of FDR, LBJ, and all traditional Democrats)

This looks for ALL the World to me to be a BIG step toward the Privatization of Health Care
(A traditional Republican Vision),
not a step toward Medicare for ALL.

So, please explain it to me in simple terms.
WHAT have I "WON"?

Specifically WHAT is our next step?
What is the foundation in the ACA for moving on to a National, Non-Profit, Single Payer System?
Social Security and Medicare contained a solid foundation that was easy to expand,
but I can't find anything in the ACA that can be built upon.
What was established in the ACA that we can expand and improve?
"The Exchange"?
..a REAL For Profit Insurance Cartel with 40 - 70 MILLION forced customers?

Perhaps I am a stodgy old FDR/LBJ Working Class purist.
If so, then so be it.
I'll wear that label proudly.
I've been a Democrat for a long time (46 years),
and have no ambition to celebrate Conservative Republican policy.
I don't think FDR or LBJ would approve of this "victory".
Please excuse me from the Victory Parade based on my traditional Democratic Party Values.