"I've told the Democratic candidates not to go too far to the left"

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108. The Green New Deal was nearly tanked by McConnell because of impatience

And thank God most Democrats cockblocked him by voting "present," on that vote.

To equate anyone that tells you something you don't want to hear with "playing into the hands of corporat propaganda who have poisoned your mind" is also not based in reality.... see also: Trump supporters.

We can't do anything new because I already have it and if we extend it to others, then it isn't fair...

Attacking a strawman doesn't help one's credibility. No one here is saying that and you know it.

To me, that argument just doesn't hold water. We need to raise taxes enough so that a) everyone has Medicare, and b) increase coverage to 100% rather than 80%, and c) allow private companies to continue to sell supplemental policies...but everybody has the basic good package.

Well, apparently anything that you don't want to hear "doesn't hold water."

There are several proposals on the table for reforming health care, and what you describe doesn't accurately reference any of them. You're oversimplifying and misrepresenting MFA, so that's one problem you have right there - lack of information.

I could give you links to several articles that go into detail, but as you've stated, you will dismiss anything, no matter how expert or evidence based, that you don't want to hear as being the product of a "corporate propaganda poisoned mind," which is sad, because we need people behind what will actually get the most health care to the most people the soonest - and right now, that's plugging the holes in the ACA.

And no, that's not a "slippery slope," it's acknowledging the reality of not being able to upend the health care system in this country all at once with out disruption to the health care system, the economic impacts of doing so on those who work in that system which is 17% of our GDP.

In the real world, any huge project has this caveat: Affordable, Fast, or Good - pick two.

There is no magic wand hidden away in some corporate board room, as you seem to think, that would enable all that you envision to happen within 10 years. Anyone who tells you that is either selling something or running for office.