Bernie Sanders thinks everyone should have health care, what an asshole!

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51. I Still don't see it, and whether it passes or not, I certainly disagree that there will be no

question whether or not Sanders played a role in its passage. There is no way that the GOP attacking
Medicare-for-All, let alone Obamacare, helps to make the GOP's proposal look better to the American people. Their bill is not popular. It is cynically, on its surface, a tax refund to rich people at the expense of coverage. If they pass it, it will not be because they convinced anybody of the merits of their proposal or of the relative deficiencies of Obamacare(they already did that work, and missed their window) or a future Medicare-for-all bill. It will be because their donors demanded they force it through in-spite of the political cost.

I just don't see the trap that you think Sanders is falling into. They'll use his words against the ACA? So what. He's said its imperfect. He also voted for it. He's on record supporting it and defending it. He's never suggested that what we had previously was better than what the ACA has offered. If they try to tear down his proposal for Medicare for All, again that just makes the ACA the middle-ground plan. And we certainly can't expect them to promote is as a better idea than Obamacare. That only helps to emphasize that their proposal is on one side of the extreme.

They cannot defend their own plan. They cannot muddy these waters to confuse the fuck out of people when their own legislation is so clearly bad.