And he isn't pissed. He passed!

I hope the recent events change things, but the truth is a big portion of voters prefer private insurance.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A 57% majority of U.S. adults believe that the federal government should ensure all Americans have healthcare coverage. Yet nearly as many, 53%, prefer that the U.S. healthcare system be based on private insurance rather than run by the government. These findings are in line with recent attitudes about the government’s involvement in the healthcare system, which have been relatively steady since 2015.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/468401/majority-say-gov-ensure-healthcare.aspx

That was January 2023, maybe it's changed.

Although a straight Medicare-for-all would be a better system, think it will take a Public Option to get past any preference for private insurance. If PO is as good as we think/hope, people will gravitate toward it.

Democrats need to capitalize n this issue for 2026.

By saying that employees would be a great deal more outraged by taxes if they had to physically pay them instead of having them withdrawn from the payroll. His point being that never actually seeing the money provides a disconnect from the pain of paying for it.

I responded "perhaps but now lets do healthcare. How do you think people would feel about paying a house payment every month for just the beginnings of health care" Especially if you include the company contribution.

The oligarchs own the means of communication & hence of propaganda. For at least 50 years the GOP has assiduously been using it to divide us and provide targets for our anger —- Look over there at the “Mexicans” ! They pick our crops and roof our houses! So dangerous! Plus they are stealing your healthcare!

People have to be very focused on reality. This last election the voters split evenly— we had a really good message and ran an excellent campaign and half the electorate didn’t want to hear it. We did not fail as such, but half of the voters is an inconvenient truth.