It's time for Democrats to distance themselves from the ACA and be all-in on Medicare for All

[biocube]

We're already subsidizing the administrative costs of the middle men in health care and insurance company profits. Might as well cut them out and just subsidize health care instead. If there was a "free market" solution to make health care affordable Republicans would've found it already.

And when Republicans say "b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but Canada!" just remind them they have some issues but they're only one of the few developed countries that figured out long ago for-profit health care doesn't control costs we're the only developed country that pretends that they do. Even the conservative Mercatus Center has found that Medicare for all will save us money.

It would also be good marketing for Democrats. Democrats need aggressive marketing to be the party of working people and not liberal upper middle class suburban moms.

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

[Nanjeanne]

2. Yes. Ive been saying this from the start of this "negotiation" to hand $$$$ to private insurances cos

so people can afford their premiums even if they can’t pay their yearly deductibles. Taxpayer $$$ from people who struggle to meet their deductible is insane and now is the perfect opportunity to take control of the narrative when it’s so obvious how insurance companies are running this scam.

[leftstreet]

4. +1

The health care $$ balloon is going to burst

Best to get out in front of a national single payer plan before the GOPers do

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. They should. They won't.

Not until their corporate sponsors in the health insurance industry are told to go pound sand. That’s the sticking point and it’s highly unlikely to happen.

I know it’s nice to think that these guys are there to look after the People but they’re there to make sure the profits keep coming in. The insurance industry is one of the biggest wringers of cash from regular folks that there is. Yay capitalism!

[AnotherMother4Peace]

5. ACA is a known & appreciated commodity by GOP voters. Medicare for All will be the bogeyman. nt

[MichMan]

6. Current Medicare recipients pay around $200 a month after pre paying into it for 40 years.

How much would it cost people to be enrolled from day 1?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

12. Yep

Plus co-pays unless you pay for a supplemental policy.

[Silent Type]

7. Suggest securing ACA before going full-blown Medicare-for-All at this point. We might have a chance at former, latter

ain't gonna happen, although some form of Public Option is possible.

[Ars Longa]

8. "Amen" Brother (sister?) Biocube ....... I believe we will see in the coming

weeks and months, a "Great Turning Away" by the American people from these tired old
corrupt systems.......It would be highly advantageous for the Democratic Party to be on the
right side of this argument!!....

[Wanderlust988]

9. There's no evidence Medicare for All is a winning electoral policy n/t

[Cirsium]

11. a winning electoral policy?

I can tell you what is definitely not a winning electoral policy - tailoring your positions to what you think will be a winning electoral policy.

[mvd]

10. Yes, agreed. But let's still focus on the ACA subsides right now

They are an immediate concern.

[creeksneakers2]

13. I think we should stick with the problems we have now

Its like the team you are opposing has first and goal on your two yard line and you are calling a 60 yard pass play when you don't even have the ball. Your suggestion is not in the real world.

Do you realize how many ads they would run on TV and what kinds of lies they would tell if we tried your suggestion? You'd be giving them a great chance to get rid of Obamacare too.

[Emile]

14. First we have to convince the centrists.

[MichMan]

15. The ones that couldn't be persuaded to vote for permanent ACA subsidies in 2021 & insisted they be temporary?

[Emile]

16. Same ones who wouldn't allow a public option when they passed the ACA.