Hillary Clinton's released detailed plan to build on the ACA towards single payer

[pandr32]

It was always her wish--single payer health-care system, but there was no way to get it through. Getting the ACA done was a mammoth battle, but the single payer option was taken off the table in order to get some sort of health-care bill passed. Still, the ACA has helped so many Americans get or keep their health-care, and offers so much benefit--too much to sacrifice and start over. This time, Republicans, after voting to repeal the ACA more than 50 times, would never allow another Democrat-led health-care plan see the light of day, and they don't have one of their own, so Hillary Clinton is quite right--we need to build on the one we've got:
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-hillary-clinton-reveals-her-plan-obamacare-20160223-column.html


Hillary!

[SHRED]

1. Insurance corporations will never abide by this

They fear a public option. They see it as a direct threat to their business model.

I don't know what the answer is but I do know that even with help via Covered California my wife and I are still paying $650 per month for shitty coverage that requires us to fork out hundreds more dollars per month to pay for what they don't cover.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. That's why we need another Dem in the White House and have Dems take back the Senate.

And we need to get a progressive justice to take Scalia's old seat.

We can stop all lawsuits by disgruntled Republican AGs working for the insurance corporations from filing lawsuits that they hope will eventually make it to a Repub-friendly SCOTUS. Take away that incentive by getting another progressive justice on the Court, and their filing frivolous lawsuits will be over.

Only with a progressive justice on the Court can we revive the VRA and remove Roberts' opinion that States may choose whether or not to accept ObamaCare - something that wasn't originally written in the law but was interpreted as such by the Cons of the Court. This needs to be overturned and then we can have a Public Option, just as President Obama originally wanted and campaigned for.

[pandr32]

4. Because it is a threat to their business model

Competition! I know it will be tough, but we must inch our way forward. Citizens have to matter, too, not just corporations.
Hopefully HC's proposed $5,000 tax credit per family will get you and your wife some relief.

[BlueCaliDem]

3. Get a progressive on the Court, take the Senate back, and keep the White House

and we'll get the Public Option passed and added to ObamaCare. Barring the above, I don't see that plan coming to fruition. Americans need to decide whether they want a viable and inexpensive Public Option or stick with what they have with the risk of eventually losing it, too.

Once we put a progressive justice on SCOTUS, we'll successfully neuter Roberts and the Cons' power, and Republican attorneys won't be so quick to file one frivolous lawsuit after another in order to have it reach SCOTUS where they find friendly ground.

[pandr32]

5. This is why Democrats need to win!

So much is at stake. We need every seat we can muster, and strong leadership in the White House.

[BlueCaliDem]

6. Exactly, pandr!

I wished more people understood that and weren't so caught up in their pet-peeves rather than look at the bigger picture. I'm hoping that will change as we get closer to November, though.

I would LOVE to have a Public Option to compete with commercial health insurance conglomerates. It's only fair. But to get it, we need to keep the White House, take back the Senate (which shouldn't be too hard this time around IF we focus!) and get a progressive on SCOTUS - and I don't mean Brian Sandoval. I'm thinking, Tino Cuellar from CA Supreme Court.

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Cuellar, 43, is an associate justice on California’s State Supreme Court. He was born in Mexico. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He grew up on the border, and his family moved to California’s Imperial Valley when he was a teenager. He was smart and decided he wanted an education. He got one, all right. Get this resume: undergrad, Harvard; law school, Yale; master’s and doctoral degrees, Stanford.

Here’s his full Stanford bio, so you can give it a gander, but it’s incredibly impressive. He worked at the White House, he worked in the Treasury Department, he taught law at Stanford. “He’s a brilliant guy,” says Samuel Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan who knows Cuellar. “He’d be the justice with the most wide-ranging intellect since William O. Douglas.” (Bagenstos asked me to note that he is backing no single candidate and thinks the president has many good choices.)

He was elevated to California’s high court by a unanimous bipartisan vote, and given the highest possible rating by the California Bar Association. He is married to a U.S. district judge, Lucy Koh, who is a formidable intellect in her own right—the Senate confirmed her unanimously, 90-0, when Obama nominated her to that position in 2010. And they have two kids.
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[pandr32]

9. Here's to that "bigger picture"

[yallerdawg]

7. Now that's a plan!

Hillary quietly seals the deal on ACA.

[pandr32]

8. That she does!

[fleabiscuit]

10. Excellent ~

It's refreshing to have a substantive candidate to vote for.