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The healthcare issue doesn't even make sense. Democrats passes the ACA and were going to create a public option but couldn't gather enough Republican support to ensure it could pass. It was an earnest attempt to provide healthcare for all Americans. The Republicans have done nothing even remotely similar and have only attempted to take healthcare away.

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One item over the course of 12 years is uh lip service at best.

The lesser of two evils is still an evil.

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Somebody will certainly bring up the filibuster at some point. Thats not in the constitution and can be removed at any point by 51 senators. As a whole democrats are not united on what to do hence why they never remove it. Which then lets them point to it as a scape-goat as to why they can't fix any problems.

> One item over the course of 12 years is uh lip service at best.

For the 30M newly insured, probably not.

Not at all, they had the votes. The public option was killed by Lieberman.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-art...

The ACA was the same market-based approach as the 1993 GOP healthcare plan. Republicans don't want to touch it because it was their idea.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/nov/15/ellen-qual...

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