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

[NurseJackie]

78. I never said they were.

76. OK. And single-payer supporters aren't against fixing the ACA

I never said they were. (Straw man argument.)

It isn't either/or.

It will be. here's a limited number of hours in the day and a limited number of favors that can be called-in when building support and coalitions. This "MFA" thing is going to fail and fail bigly. Meanwhile whatever work and energy is devoted to it is NOT going to be given to the ACA. Enough of this "walk and chew gum" bullshit. The ACA will languish and suffer. It will be left even more vulnerable than it is today. MFA is pie-in-the-sky and won't happen in my lifetime. If we let the ACA be destroyed, then we have nothing, but I guess some folks don't care about that, since it fits very well into their "all or nothing" political philosophy. (Is that your philosophy? All or nothing? No compromise! No incrementalism? No common ground?)

I encourage you to re-read and try to understand what I (and others) have been trying to tell you. It's important to live in the real world and to be realistic. Political grandstanding accomplishes nothing (other than inflating the egos of the politicians who do it) and getting the 2020 hopefuls some free air time.

(Still waving!)