Millions are crippled by medical debt - welcome to healthcare in America

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32. Ironic that this is also Sanders' faction's doing by throwing

control of government to the Republicans, who also -- again ironically -- like him and his loyal followers believed in the necessity of destroying the ACA, our national healthcare system.

Yes, there is a big difference. Of course.

It's that Sanders promised to replace it someday. But not in 2017, not in 2018, not in 2019, not in 2020, and not within the next at least 7 years after getting power that it would have taken to write, pass into law, and fully implement his replacement, which existed only in his mind. It took a pitched 2-year battle to pass the ACA in the form they achieved under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi.

The ACA's been remarkably, wonderfully durable, and those who wanted it destroyed have all failed so far, BUT they've all also greatly delayed the expansion of a complete universal healthcare system. The Republicans couldn't have done it without help from the far left because they almost certainly wouldn't have been elected. The numbers prove it even though they don't count those egregiously persuaded not to bother voting at all.

We Democrats will start doing on January 20, 2021 what we expected to do January 20, 2017.

But first do no harm would be a good political resolution for this next year. Because it will only happen if Democrats get the power to make it happen.