Obamanomics: A Counterhistory

There is no path from ACA to SinglePayer - That was the purpose of it.  If you believe it's a step forward, lay out the path from ACA to single payer.  In detail.  

As far as not being able to get single payer, that was the mandate of the 2008 election - To get affordable, quality medical care for everyone.  ACA doesn't do that.  ACA is a continuation of what exists, with the added bonus of the corporate medical industry draining more from citizens, by mandate.

There's rarely a majority in Congress to pass anything at all until a campaign has been mounted to sell it.  And when a president and his political party are swept into power to deliver affordable­, quality medical treatment for all as Obama and Democrats were in 2008, and the one method that can accomplish it (and also happens to solve other unique problems facing us at the time, i.e., a crashing economy, joblessnes­s, etc.) that president not only doesn't use his bully pulpit to sell, but unilateral­ly takes off the table, removes from even discussing it, then the fix is in and that president is corrupt to the core. 

Obama took SinglePayer (MedicareForAll) off the table, because if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison­.  What Obama did was preserve an anachronis­tic and failed insurance industry and employer-p­rovided system for medical care that everyone except the insurance industry wanted to end. It's government sanctioned racketeeri­ng.

All of the evidence points to ACA being a scheme to eliminate public healthcare of all kinds.  Medicare and Medicaid are set for carving after this election, along with Social Security.

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