Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

that is a dumb and self indulgent strategy, as it was last year and always will be. I'll proudly vote for the party and folks going in the right direction, and push them further and protect their achievements like ACA

Ok. Well, good for you. But you’re making things worse.

No, being self indulgent and making politics a personal purity test rather than seeing the big picture and the necessity for finding compromise in a big tent to keep moving forward and protecting achievements makes things worse

Compromise? So, to you, just to be clear, allowing 3000 Americans - a significant percentage of whom are children - to die every month due to lack of health insurance is a necessary compromise? I reject that. With heavy prejudice.

I reject that number increasing amidst many other horrible dismantlings of long fought progress with the fight to keep pushing when there are better options. You want to burn the house down rather than keep fighting. That's "principle" to you.

No, that number hasn’t increased. It’s the CBO estimate based on studies that show that out of every 830 people who lack health insurance every year, 1 will die as a result. There are consistently about 28 million without health insurance under the ACA.

With Trump and the GOP at the helm, even in their immediate failure to repeal the bill, their sabotage and death by a million cuts in the tax bill etc; plus stacking courts will cause that number to drastically increase

Because Democrats didn’t pass universal healthcare when they could. If they did, it would be so popular by now that Republicans wouldn’t be able to mess with it. Like Medicare. I’m done with this. You’re compromising with American lives. And it’s wrong. Period.