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King Beauregard 👂's avatar

Yeah that's what the Left loves to say so they can demonize the ACA as a betrayal of their alleged principles. But the devil is in the details, and the ACA does a ton of stuff that Republicans hate, such as capping profits and subsidizing low-income policy holders. A human, a bear, and a gorilla are all very similar too, if you resolve to ignore the details that set them apart.

The big problem with the ACA, for those who want to replace it, is that it actually does its job well, much better than people on the Left or Right want to admit. Yes it's still costly, but that has everything to do with our very very for-profit medical providers turning in bills that are 50% more than in Canada and 100% more than in Europe. Even single payer runs into huge cost problems, such as when it failed in Vermont just months before Bernie hit the campaign trail (funny how he never mentioned that). If we're going to do anything at this point, it needs to be regulating doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies directly so we can bring their prices down.

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I think the Left wanted very much to believe there was such a thing as a good Republican, and McCain looked like he might be that elusive animal. But nope, he was simply somehow even more shameless than the other Republicans, who had not a particle of shame between the lot of them.

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