Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid says 'not a chance in hell' Medicare for All would pass

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29. Harry Reid's a healthcare expert who had a huge hand in getting

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the ACA passed. Truman, Nixon, Carter, and Clinton all tried and failed to overhaul our healthcare "system," but Democrats lead by Reid and Pelosi, many of whom put their careers on the line to create a national healthcare system, battled through intense opposition to finally make it happen.

That Democrats finally did it obviously has been burning Sanders' butt ever since. This living proof that his demonization of Democrats as Republicans was delusional has, tragically, resulted in Sanders demonizing the ACA itself to justify joining the Republicans in trying to destroy it. There's no doubt that his joining their efforts to undermine confidence in the Democrats and the ACA played a real role in the devastating losses of 2016.

Responsible healthcare experts, the vast majority of whom support the ACA, can't provide a rational, respectable explanation for why socialist Sanders based a political campaign on creating a second capitalism-based, for-profit national healthcare system and joined the Republicans' efforts to destroy the ACA.

Answers to WHY Sanders didn't live his claimed goals by joining Democrats to to first complete the parts of the ACA the Republicans blocked, and then work to make it everything we need, would have to come from psychologists and cynical political campaign advisers.

But a big reason we have 100 senators and 435 congressmen in DC is to keep odd elements from kicking over the national bucket to serve personal delusions and political purposes.

Harry Reid is of course 100% right. The Democrats who battled for 2 years to pass the ACA have an absolute duty to the people not to allow Sanders and the Republicans to destroy it and then spend most of a decade battling the Republicans in a desperate attempt to replace it. Silly stuff, the catching on of such a idea in this very dangerous era so dangerously dysfunctional that future historians will point to it as an indication of the current political disorder.

Democrats also would never vote to eliminate all healthy and necessary competition in healthcare and or the ability of Americans to choose for themselves. Even if that wasn't found to be unconstitutional, we're Democrats and believe in representative government that serves the wishes of the people.

Thanks, Harry, for an injection of that reality from someone who knows.