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In reply to the discussion: The Fact-Checkers Are Clueless [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)that could actually be instituted. Until then that BOTH stands: BOTH Trump and Sanders have used promises of better healthcare than the ACA for less money (or, as some imagine, none) to draw followers. And that's it.
Yes, unlike Trump, Sanders no doubt sincerely wants a universal healthcare program, but unicorns don't vaccinate babies and put shattered legs back together. It has to be REAL.
And yes, the ACA is currently national healthcare, not yet universal, though that was and still is the plan in spite of the GOP's conservative Supreme Court successes. However, national is huge: Most of the ACA affects healthcare across the nation. Remember that when the power stays down but your local hospital, wherever it is, has full power and other requirements critical to operate as before for no less than 72 hours. Or when when you have a right to review your personal healthcare record in your PCP's office, learn your penicillin allergy and history of diverticulitis aren't on it, and have the right to insist on adding them under your own name even if your new PCP won't do it without running a couple thousand dollars worth of tests. And hundreds of other important advances in providing care.