Stop calling it Medicare for All and we will see a serious decrease in "attacks"

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32. Do specifics help?

We talk as if the candidate’s plans will just be submitted to congress, congress will vote them up or down and then we bask in the glory of solving healthcare.

Reality is we first have to win the general elections and then depending on what kind of majority we have we’ll have to figure out what can get enough votes.

Then whatever passes will take 4 to 8 years to start yielding benefits. If we lose intervening elections we risk having whatever we pass overturned or impeded. That’s what happened with ACA. If we had kept congress in 2010 we could have added to it. Instead we’ve barely retained it and it might be overturned by the Supreme Court.

I would have been happier if Warren talked about healthcare as a right and gave us an aspiration of single payer without the commitment to immediately go to medicare for all. I wish she had more wiggle room to counter attacks in the general election and didn’t have to figure out how to come up with 34 trillion in revenue.

Those details don’t help us in the general election and will really not matter when it gets down to writing the actual legislation.

All l needed was something concrete like a public option and prescription drug reform. The goal of getting to single payer would have been enough to make me a fan. We should be trouncing republicans who have absolutely no ideas not defending our aspirations.

Sorry if that seems jaded but most complex things take more than one attempt to be delivered. We never would have gotten to the moon if Kennedy was required to write a comprehensive plan and insisted it be done in a single launch.