George Bush Sr. made a deal with Democrats to raise taxes and cut spending. Ever since then the Republican strategy has been to oppose pretty much anything a Democratic President proposes. The ACA was a Republican healthcare idea and they didn’t support it because a Democrat proposed it.

There are only two realistic possibilities. Get a Republican to propose some sort of national healthcare or have Democrats fully embrace socialized medicine and not give a shit what Republicans say or think. If it gets implemented quickly enough then getting rid of it will be very difficult to do. People won’t give up free at the point of usage healthcare once they try it out.

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saghm a day ago | parent [-]

> There are only two realistic possibilities. Get a Republican to propose some sort of national healthcare or have Democrats fully embrace socialized medicine and not give a shit what Republicans say or think.

It's worth keeping in mind that Eisonhower's cabinet argued against the idea of giving the polio vaccine away for free on the basis of it being a "backdoor to socialized medicine". We're over seven decades past the point where it makes sense to give a shit about what anyone says about "socialized medicine".

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czgov a day ago | parent [-]

Would that Obama, Jeffries, Schumer, and others felt the same way!

	▲	saghm a day ago \| parent [-]
		For what it's worth, Obama did actually initially consider a public option[0]; it was Congress who made it clear that they wouldn't pass it that caused him to pivot to what we have now. [0]: edited from "single-payer" to reflect correction to a similar comment I made elsewhere in this thread