• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 days ago

    And the ACA was a compromise with Republicans. A lot was stripped out by Republican demand, and yet it was still such a massive improvement from the previous system.

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      21 days ago

      the ACA was a compromise with Republicans

      That’s the best part; none of the republicans voted for it and they immediately pledged to destroy it.

      It’s a subsidy for health insurers that’s needlessly complicated and still makes healthcare inordinately expensive for most Americans, and required exactly as much buy-in from republicans as free healthcare would have: absolutely none.

      Democrats had a supermajority and a massive mandate from the people, and chose to do what they thought the republicans would like. And then scratched their head when they got blown the fuck out in 2010.