Single-Payer Health Care Is Seeing Record Support in Congress

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27. The author of the piece cannot seem to let it go

by asserting that -

Just a year ago the Democratic establishment was recklessly (and disingenuously) maligning the policy to help keep Sen. Bernie Sanders from winning the Democratic Primary.

What you are arguing is not what the author is arguing. The author is basically saying the party itself does not want single-payer and that any critiques of Sen. Sander's version of such a plan were not only not welcome, but were somehow the source of his loss in primaries that happened over a year ago....and this is pure bullshit.

The issue is that, just like we saw with the ridiculous AHCA put forth by the GOP, there are often major technicalities that arise and need to be fleshed out when one proffers an initial legislative "plan" like this, such as what had been done by Clinton (in the '90s), Obama (in the late '00s), and Sanders (last year), and those issues need to be addressed and worked out congenially and realistically, without the continual finger-pointing and childish infighting.

One of the things rarely cited about Obama, even before he became a U.S. Senator or the President, was that as a State Senator, the type of legislation that he most focused on had to do with healthcare (from here) -

So you can see the desire was DEFINITELY there for "universal" or "single-payer", but the devil will ALWAYS be in the details.

Even as the idiot Drumpf discovered and blurted out- "nobody knew health care could be so complicated", so to do we need to acknowledge this without the hyperbolic primary crap. The irony is that far too many within the party ran away from the ACA in 2010 during that year's elections, yet as we are now seeing 7 years later, the "something" that we got was definitely better than nothing because that "something" can now form the foundation and be the basis to transition to what we really want.