ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

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(03-25-2017, 11:47 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: It is up to a few blue states to make some progress on health care, by passing a single payer plan. Those who want to be covered can then move to one of these states, or at least trumpet its success. Real reform nationally will have to wait until the voters learn to do the right thing and dump Drump and the Republicans. That could happen in 2022-2024, if not sooner. The Republicans are only interested in reducing, cutting back or eliminating reform and boosting the old free enterprise approach instead, which is to say to put our health care into the hands of greedy wolves. Meanwhile we are stuck with Obamacare, or what's left of it.

Some like Bob would say, oh Eric is just an extreme partisan. OK fine, I'll accept the label. But guess which party moved to the extreme? Obamacare was a Republican plan; even though I favor single payer, I favored its passage. That's not extreme. Obamacare was a compromise.

Give up on any hope of national reform for now. It is only possible if and when the voters come to their senses.

If you want Blue State Single Payer (which is never going to happen), then you need a clean repeal of Obamacare too Eric.  Federal Law pre-empts state law just like state law pre-empts local ordinance.

That being said there isn't a government program that I don't want to cut or abolish except perhaps the military and the post office.