Progressives Support Shoring Up ACA Before Tackling Medicare For All

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71. So you misrepresented a basic detail. Not Nancy Pelosi, an 'aide.' Second: Ryan Grim...

Writer for the Young Turks and the Intercept, two orgs that bash Democrats and the Democratic party on a weekly basis.

"Sources familiar with the meeting...." said that an aide/advisor "said that Democrats would be allies to the insurance industry in the fight against single-payer health care."

That's quite a leap of faith consider that "quote" to be a reliable account of what was said, coming from the fan 'zine for the Democratic party hating left.

Unless you're their target audience.

If it was SECRET and NEFARIOUS why did Pelosi's office acknowledge it and clarify when asked about it?

“We’re not going to barter lower prescription drug costs for inaction in the rest of the health care industry,” Pelosi spokesperson Henry Connelly told The Intercept. “The presentation was a broad look at the health care environment and some of House Democrats’ legislative priorities over the next two years in a period of GOP control of the Senate and White House.”

Of course Wendell Primus would be portrayed an Intercept narrative as an mustache twirling arch villian, trying to thwart Senator Bernie Sanders and all people who need health care. Here is what a Google turned up:

Wendell Primus is the Senior Policy Advisor on Budget and Health issues to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In that capacity, he was the lead staffer in developing the Affordable Care Act. He also played a major role in the SGR legislation in 2015 and various budget agreements. Prior to this appointment in March, 2005, Dr. Primus was the Minority Staff Director at the Joint Economic Committee. He has also held positions at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, served in the Clinton Administration at the Department of Health and Human Services and also served as Chief Economist for the House Ways and Means Committee and Staff Director for the Committee's Subcommittee on Human Resources. Dr. Primus received his Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State University.

The people involved in the meeting weren't even correctly identified before it was declared to be "unacceptable."

I think this shows an outlook that anything that Democrats do that isn't in lockstep with Senator Sanders is what is really "unacceptable."