2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why didn't Bernie get Vermont to pass single payer? [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)I wont hash over differences over the wisdom of the ACA. It's better than what was in some respects, but it has gaping holes, and is counterproductive in some ways. But your mileage may vary.
But I do think that -- whatever term one wants to give it -- the Democratic Party ought to be the party that clearly lays out as a goal the ability of everyone to have access to truly affordable care through a "social insurance" alternative. (expanded Medicare something new, whatever). And sell its merits clearly.
Couldn't happen overnight, the GOP would fight like wolverines -- but if a substantial majority of the Democratic Party actually stood for it and pushed for it, enough of the public would start to see it as a common sense solution that we could get there a lot quicker and more cleanly than all this waffling.