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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (391935)12/16/2018 5:11:33 PM
From: NAG1  Read Replies (1) of 543020
 
koan,

We know how to do universal health care. We can always expand medicaid or copy Canada's and the UK's and other western programs. How to do this is no mystery and we would have done it by now except for the fucking Republicans.

What, every other western Democracy can figure it out, but the richest country on earth can't? What are we idiots? Well, yes the Republican party is pretty idiotic.

We can pass it all in 2020 as we will control everything. Easy Peasy.

Getting things done is no problem once you have the power. And the idea.
Right after Obama was elected in 2008 and the Dems had majorities in the the House and Senate, it took quite a while to get the ACA passed. Definitely not easy. And the Dems let the Republicans run away the narrative about healthcare afterwards.

You are right that we should know how to do this. But it won't be easy trying to change our present system. Too many with money with vested interests to make this easy.
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