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In reply to the discussion: Just got my ACA premium notice for next year [View all]pnwmom
(108,980 posts)knows that it's very possible.
The ACA doesn't worsen that, though. And it ensures that people who've lost their jobs won't ALSO find themselves closed out of the possibility of being able to have any good health insurance. Millions of single adults qualify for Medicaid who didn't qualify before.
Yes, single-payer would be better. But this is what we could achieve at this moment in time. And it's a hell of a lot better than the nothing we had before.
The progressive state of Vermont is using the ACA to develop a single-payer plan, by the way. Unfortunately, it's finding it very difficult to actually implement. If the small state of Vermont doesn't succeed, imagine how much harder it would have been to get our divided Congress to pass single-payer.