• LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    10 years ago, we almost had medicare for all as a public healthcare option. We were soooo close. But congress fucked it up necause they were lobbied by ins companies who knew everyone with a brain would flock to the public option.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      10 years ago, we almost had medicare for all as a public healthcare option.

      The ACA was 15 years ago, and it wasn’t even remotely close to Medicare for all. It was a halfassed Heritage Foundation policy that wouldn’t cover everyone before just enough members of the Democratic caucus killed the public option, which was the intent from the very start.