General Discussion

in fiery speeches and dedicated his whole career to the cause. Got a lot done, because that's the point.

Clinton administration tried for universal health care and Hillary was integral to the creation of the Children's Health Care Insurance Program (CHIP), and then there was Obama's ACA. Medicare for All goes back to the '50s I think. Republican senator Javis proposed a plan in 1970, John Dingell and then his son, John Conyers introduced a Medicare for All Act in 2003 and I believe every year until his death. Absurd to think Medicare for All was a new idea.

It only takes a few minutes to look these things up. Instead, supporters heard: "When we said that health care is a human right, we were told that it was a radical idea that the American people wouldn't accept" and believed it. The whole long history of the Democratic Party's fight for universal health care was erased.