Here's what I don't understand about the question on "outlawing" private insurance.

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74. In 2016 voters elected a racist whose platform was

repeal and replace Obamacare. Trump's health care stance was a vague policy with no detail whatsoever. And yet, he won.

This fact alone indicates that public opinion is far more complex than you are making it out to be. Obamacare cost us Congress in 2010 and won us Congress in 2018. It all depends on how effectively the campaign builds support for its policies.

Oversimplified views of public opinion are a pattern for our party and have cost us elections. We should be asking ourselves why the candidates supporting MFA have strong support among Democrats - none as high as Biden's individual numbers, but at least a 12-20% portion for Harris, Sanders, Warren. IMO it's the clarity and the boldness of MFA that makes it poll reasonably well, even among Republicans, and that's a clue to how a campaign for health care reform should be run. The Biden campaign realizes this and has rolled out its proposal using a game-changer rhetorical approach.

Our party loses when policy proposals sound like half measures. We need to modernize our communication based on the actual state of public opinion. If we had done that in 2009 we might have gotten the public option then instead of 10 years later, still trying to get what party moderates took off the table way back then.

The fear-mongering over MFA needs to stop. Of course Republicans paint MFA as scary socialism - they did that with Obamacare too! We have to be build public support for any proposal. That takes creative thinking and an accurate view of public opinion.

There are genuine differences within the party and within the country on health care issues. If Biden wins the nomination we can all advocate for his plan in the general. Meanwhile, it's better to respectfully debate the genuine differences of opinion on health care policy among Democrats.