We need to recognize that the ACA needs to go.

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27. The point is universal healthcare.

We have seen people insist single payer is the only acceptable solution. Is that just semantics too?
Because a whole lot of people are focused on those semantics and have used them to express opposition to proposals and efforts to implement universal healthcare.

Germany has a multi-payer system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany
Claiming that all countries have single payer is factually false. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland
Both Switzerland and Germany require citizens to purchase health insurance, unlike in the single payer U.K. & Canadian systems in which healthcare is payed through the national government.

I know the truth has fallen out of fashion in our current political culture and that there is an operating assumption that the less informed people are the better. I do not share that view. I believe that informed and substantive knowledge is essential to effective policy. It's one thing to examine the various systems different countries employ to deliver health care and then conclude single payer is more efficient or better in some other way. It's another to claim that they are all single payer and then chastise those who point out your claims are false.