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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders supported the ACA. His support was crucial. [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)There is on DU a school of thought -- giving that word an extremely broad meaning -- according to which Bernie has covertly set out to sabotage the ACA, presumably because he wants single payer and thinks that will help.
My point was simply that Bernie Sanders voted for the ACA. He has also voted against every repeal bill.
My post did not concern the merits of single payer. If you want to go there, however, I'm quite content with the obvious comparison: There are different ways of implementing single payer, just as, among other industrialized countries, health care systems differ; but all of those other systems are better than the one we have now. That two states decided they couldn't implement single payer in one state does not convince me that the United States is for some unexplained reason incapable of achieving what every other industrialized country has done.