Bluesky

Er... if we're deciding to move the goalposts to "the ACA was a pitiful gift to the insurance companies and betrayal of what should have been, and the Democrats mostly haven't done shit since then, we need real change" then I'll completely agree with you.

If that's what you're saying, of course, then you need to have a chat with the people down below in the comments who said that right after the ACA passed, it started killing people, and we'd be better off without it.

If instead your argument is:

There was a chance to push for a real solution, universal healthcare

I’m not the previous commenter, but in answer to your question, would I rather the ACA not exist? Of course I would! Anyone with half a brain who cares abut human beings around them would. Give us universal healthcare already.

Are you under the impression that if the ACA didn't exist, we would have universal health care?

That the systemic problems that fucked up genuine health care reform into the final mutated form of the ACA would suddenly not exist if only we attacked the ACA enough?