Progressives Support Shoring Up ACA Before Tackling Medicare For All

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85. Let's point out that the Pubs have hurt the ACA as bad

as they can, attacking its funding mechanism several ways, of course not allowing the Medicare expansion, allowing states to sell junk policies, and much else. In spite of that, the ACA is so solid and so well entrenched among the various industries that work with it that it still works as intended for those people fortunate enough, like those in California, to have it working mostly as intended.

At this initial stage, of course. Considering the Republicans never allowed a single tweak to improve this tremendously complex program before or after rolling it out, it's been a marvel.

McConnell trying to scare people by showing it printed out. He didn't say congressional Republicans wouldn't allow even one adjustment to allow it to work better after road testing. Boy, were they disappointed!

Btw, now that we have a majority in the house, we're trying to make substantial improvements for those who have to live with it for the next 2 and more years, but Bernie Sanders refuses to join in improving it, even opposing reducing the premiums.

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