Warren co-sponsoring Sanders's 'Medicare for All bill'

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40. I am a practical person. I worry about issues that have a shot...at this moment single payer

doesn't. As for a campaign issue, I wouldn't go there. People understand and like the ACA and running on improving it would be a good thing...single payer is too easy for the GOP to demonize...even if we win the midterm, we won't be able to enact single payer with Trump in office. Even if we win the presidency, the House and the Senate at some point but by 2020, unless we have a 60 vote majority in the Senate, we won't be able to pass single payer. I am not convinced it is the best plan as practice by Canada and the UK. There are other European models that will work better. And with jobs becoming more and more important, I don't think higher taxes and higher job losses in insurance will be acceptable to most Americans.

But I will say this, if we lose the ACA, we lose healthcare for a generation. Thousand perhaps millions will die. There will be no single payer or anything else...protecting the ACA should be our number one job: not writing bills that have no chance to pass. We gave up our majority to pass the ACA...and the GOP are dead set against any form of health care...I don't when we will ever have the chance we had in 2009...maybe never. So perhaps we should try to save the ACA first and worry about single payer or some other plan later.