The ACHA just passed.

[Nanjeanne]

40. Dems should use this opportunity to talk about morality and what kind of country we want to be

... and how we want to treat our citizens.

It's not just kicking millions off - it's saying Republicans believe it's OK to buy insurance for healthcare based on how much you earn. That's not OK. Teachers, social workers, fast food workers, secretaries, all people deserve quality healthcare.

When Republicans use CHOICE they mean choose what you can afford. What kind of morality is that? And now cancer patients and others will life-threatening diseases will have annual caps and lifetime caps and premiums they can't afford in high risk pools that does nothing to bring down the cost of healthcare. Bankruptcy is now in the future for millions if they live long enough to exhaust their annual and lifetime caps.

Medicare4All - take the profit incentive out of healthCARE now. Insurance companies will still sell adjunct healthcare items and flourish. Rich people will always be able to buy more care. But ALL citizens will get excellent healthCARE and everyone will be covered.

Messaging now is more important than ever. When Taiwain started their universal healthcare system in the 1980s - they did it after years of economic growth. They started from the moral standpoint that a country that now had the money needed to protect it's citizens and they then created their national healthcare system from scratch based on that moral starting point.

Democrats need to find a common thread that they all use. It's not enough to talk about people losing insurance. People listen to that and think - that's not me - those people are lazy or poor or useless. A real concrete message condensed into a couple of sentences repeated over and over is what the Democrats need.