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In reply to the discussion: "But we couldn't *possibly* have gotten single payer!" [View all]Rilgin
(787 posts)I am expressing my opinion about this thread topic. You are derailing it and trying to claim your opinion as fact.
The title of this thread is "But we couldn't *possibly* have gotten single payer!". It is not a thread on whether we did get the ACA.
You are asserting something on the order of "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush".
That is a valid opinion and has some merit but is not always true and is a mere opinion not a "fact".
Sometimes taking a path forecloses taking a better path. I went to graduate school a long time ago. I was waitlisted in a school considered the best in the country with an unspecified chance of getting in off the waitlist. I was given admission at another school which was good but had some drawbacks. It was slightly more expensive farther from my family and not specialized in my preferred area but it was a good school. I choose to accept it, moved and signed a lease at the lesser certain school. I took the bird in hand. After signing the lease and going to class, I was accepted off the waitlist for the other school. Now, the school I attended was very good and I do not regret it but I probably would have been much better off If I had chosen the other path and waited for the waitlist.
This above is a true story from my life and the basic topic of this thread which you have derailed. Would we have gotten in the way of health care reform if we had chosen another path or negotiated differently It is your opinion that we are better off getting the ACA (the bird in hand). That is opinion and I am not sure I agree with that opinion.