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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.

that's false. They barely got the numbers they needed and were able to slide in ACA despite complete GOP opposition. And then they got creamed in the 2010 mid terms for it. You care about those 28 million without insurance still?

don't play accelerationist politics and self indulgent principled ploys that do nothing to help them but most likely end up giving them plenty of company when the protections and insurance of the ACA is demolished

They got creamed because the ACA was a bad law. They had 58 votes in the Senate, plus Bernie and Lieberman. They had the votes & could’ve used the “nuclear option” to pass universal healthcare. They just didn’t want to. As a result, people are dying and you’re apologizing for it.

Lieberman is the one that mucked it up. They got creamed in 2010 because the law wasn't good enough for some and again let consequences of sitting out/protest voting hurt chances to keep moving forward.