2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who else wanted single-payer universal healthcare over the ACA? [View all]zeemike
(18,998 posts)It still cost me and I am still paying but without it I would never been able to afford health care.
But I don't want to tear down anything and neither does Bernie...let the ACA stand just like it is...just lower the age of eligibility of Medicare...it is as simple as that. Nothing radical there at all.
But yes I do think he will get things done in congress. Because he knows how things work. And we seem to have forgotten how it works.
We have been told that if congress says no then there is nothing we can do...just give up and give the congress what it wants...those excuses have dominated the last 7 years and because people are tired of excuses the Dems have lost both houses.
Sanders knows that in the first two years he will take it to the congress and let them say no...and in 2 years on a new election is held and he will tell people that if they want Medicare for all give him a congress that will say yes...and things will change. Obama could have done that but he did not.
If you don't fight for what is right they will walk all over you, and that is what has been going on now for too long.