What infuriates me about *some* Bernie activists isn't that they're pushing for M4All--that's fine--it's the LACK OF RESPECT OR RECOGNITION for the UNGODLY amount of work that was put into advancing healthcare reform by people OTHER than Bernie for DECADES.
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The push for universal healthcare didn't start with Bernie Sanders, nor did it start in 2016. I give him credit for playing *a* part in advancing M4A into the mainstream, but to minimize the role played by many others, or the significance of the ACA in that process is enraging.
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I understand how the Overton window works. I even support *eventually* achieving M4All (though I suspect the German or Swiss model may be a better fit for the U.S.). HOWEVER...
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...the major philosophical difference between myself and M4All activists is that they think it's time to go from here to there in one major process while I think it's still gonna have to be phased in via a series of smaller processes (and I don't mean his 4-yr transition plan).
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Am I wrong? Are *they* correct that it's time to do it in one shot? Perhaps. But it doesn't make me EVIL or a NEOLIBERAL or CORRUPT or a CORPORATE SHILL or whatever the fuck insult of the day. It's just a genuine difference of opinion on strategy/tactics, not the ultimate goal.
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I believe Ted Kennedy said his biggest regret was not taking the healthcare deal that was offered to him in the Nixon administration. We could have built incremental improvements off that to be in a better place today. Now we make incremental improvements to Obamacare.
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And this is a really good reminder of what can happen if you bet the farm on an “all or nothing” strategy.
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John Dingell’s dad was the start of this in the 1940s. John Sr tragically died young and John Jr ran for the seat and took over the cause.
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Go back even further, to John Dingell Sr.
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Harry Truman waves.
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