ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

[Bob Butler 54]

CNN in an opinion piece On health care, let's do the impossible hints at a true regeneracy.  It suggests a "transormational politics", thus advocates an abandonment of the status quo, a readiness to move on.

It is of course one editorial favoring medicare for all, but seems more atypical for pushing the transformational thing.

CNN Wrote:Transformational politics is not simply a set of rhetorical flourishes that promise a pony, as some Democratic Party insiders have sniffed derisively. Transformational politics resets our social and political priorities by marrying economics and public policy with a willingness to challenge the conventional ways that society and government exercise power. Nelson Mandela summed up transformative politics succinctly: "It always seems impossible until it's done."

For example, I would have thought it impossible in July 2015, when Sanders' presidential campaign was registering in the low-double digits in the polls, that 16 Democratic senators would stand with him two years later as he introduced a sweeping single-payer "Medicare For All" bill.

Recent polling shows a majority of voters supporting "Medicare for All," which expands coverage, compared with an overwhelming majority of voters opposed to Graham-Cassidy, which would take away health care for millions of people.