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2. The AMA, doctors & nurses orgs, AARP, hospitals & others oppose Obamacare repeal in large part because they're stakeholders in it...

3. Paradoxically, the inclusion of institutional stakeholders is what caused some who identify as "on the left" to oppose Obamacare in 2009.

4. Nothing short of government-administered "single payer" was acceptable to those Obamacare opponents as it was being legislated...

5. Interestingly, the state of Vermont - with support of its governor - tried to enact single payer, titled "Medicare for All" but balked...

6. ...after its true costs became evident: an 11.5% increase in state payroll tax plus premiums as high as 9.5% of a person's income...

7. While *I* could and would justify such high initial costs for single payer health care, most consumers & voters would quickly reject 'em.

8. The sad truth is that had "Obamacare" been "single payer" the *easiest* thing for the GOP right now would be to dismantle it...

9. What makes it so difficult for the GOP to repeal Obamacare now is that, again, it gave stakes to many institutional sectors...

@AlGiordano Dems need to start talking about adding the public option to reduce costs. #PublicOption

@chiefster16 You don't sound like anyone who has ever organized a winning battle around a complex policy issue. You're spitting nonsense.

@AlGiordano OK just keep winning.

@chiefster16 Use your google. I do win most of the battles I enter. That's been public record for decades & because I organize, not whine.

@AlGiordano You could have politely given an alternate comment. Instead you had to be a dick. Only an a-hole would listen to you. Goodbye.

@AlGiordano Since Dems agree ACA needs improvement why isn't there Dem bill to boost subsidies, cut deductibles. Why no positive alternative

@zugerd Perhaps because they don't have the votes and it would be only a symbolic gesture?

@AlGiordano Of course but debating it would show the "ACA is dying" argument is bullshit. ACA not dying if GOP stops starving it.

@AlGiordano Obama outsmarted them again. He made it able to withstand GOP attempts to dismantle, and GOP was ill prepared to replace.

@zatchry @eclecticbrotha @AlGiordano I think they expected to continue to have nonsensical "repeal" votes without coming up with a plan.

@jocelynjtweet @eclecticbrotha When confronted with abysmal facts about their "replacement" they scrambled to include a Phase 2 and Phase 3.

@Mombity @jocelynjtweet @eclecticbrotha The only reason there is a hypothetical "next phases(s)" is becUse they want to use reconciliation.

@Mombity @jocelynjtweet @eclecticbrotha They can't do the other stuff under reconciliation b/c they're not budgetary. But w/o the CBO=>

@Mombity @jocelynjtweet @eclecticbrotha >>being able to analyze them (b/c they don't yet exist) the coverage losses are horrific & the >>

@Mombity @jocelynjtweet @eclecticbrotha >>so-called drop in premiums (not a real drop, just a slightly lower increase) seems insignificant.

@Mombity @jocelynjtweet @eclecticbrotha If they want CBO (and voters) to assess the entire plan then they have to put it all up at once.