The Medicare-For-All Bill does not conflict with defending the ACA.

[Ken Burch]

70. It's not the fault of single-payer advocates that that hasn't happened.

If anything, such a proposal(which should have been proposed the day the ACA was signed and made a major part of our argument for turning out to vote Democratic in the midterms that year)SHOULD have been made by the Congressional leaders who agreed to water the ACA down in the first place.

I accept the argument that a short-term compromise was probably necessary-but the strategy to keep people in the game(turnout was way down among pretty much every part of the Obama coalition in the 2010 midterms, down even from the 2006 midterms where we retook both houses after twelve years of mainly GOP control)should have been to say "if you'll work hard and get everybody to the polls in the midterms, we can FIX the problems now".

Instead, our campaign that year didn't even feature any real defense of the ACA.

Repair legislation should be introduced now, in addition to MFA. It won't pass under Trump, but it helps to get the proposals out there.