Richard Neal and his "incremental" bullshit. It's guys like this who will hold us back.

[Magoo48]

We simply don’t have time to negotiate obstacles like democrats who plant themselves in the path of progress. Half measures will avail us nothing. We either reform healthcare or we don’t.

“I think that there is an approach that is a little more incremental in nature,” said Neal.


Over his two-decade career in the House, Neal has relied on support from the health care industry, receiving $950,000 from health professionals and associations and $750,000 from the pharmaceutical industry, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Neal also received $2.4 million from the insurance industry, which includes health insurers amongst other types of insurance companies, more than any other member of the incoming 116th Congress.
In the 2017-18 election cycle, insurance and pharmaceutical PACs alone combined to deliver a mammoth $546,000 to the

https://readsludge.com/2018/12/05/richard-neal-medicare-for-all-block-progressive-health-care-bills-ways-means-committee/

[KPN]

1. When we've won back the Senate and the WH,

you will be correct. In the meantime, there’s no reason the good Democrats of Massachusetts can’t and shouldn’t primary Congressman Neal in 2020 to safeguard the prospects for these progressive goals.

[Renew Deal]

2. Richard Neal should care a primary from a credible candidate so voters can decide

If this guy should be blocking healthcare for all. Or Pelosi can move him out of his position. The good news is that he probably can’t hurt us now, but hopefully he’s not in the way when it matters.

Remember Max Baucus?

[marble falls]

3. Richard Neal is a good solid Democratic Congressman and a hatchet job from a blog ...

won't change that,

From Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neal
Domestic policy

A longtime advocate of health care reform, Neal was involved in the major health care reform efforts of 1993–94 and 2009–10. In working on the unsuccessful Clinton health care plan of 1993 he balanced his desire for health care reform with the interests of the major health insurance and medical companies in his district, achieving a compromise allowing insurance companies to charge small businesses higher premiums.[30] He was later involved writing the House's 2009 health care reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. As chairman of the Select Revenue Measures subcommittee, he had a hand in developing the bill's financing plan. He explained that his priorities were to address "pre-existing conditions, capping out-of-pocket expenses and making sure people don't lose their health care if they lose their job".[45][46] Despite his support for the act, he spoke about his preference for a "piecemeal" approach to health care reform, saying it would allow for a more reasonable debate.[47]

Coming from a relatively Catholic district, Neal has a more conservative record on the issue of abortion than other Massachusetts representatives.[3] He said in 2010, "I have always opposed taxpayer funding of abortion. I'd keep Roe v. Wade and restrict it, I've always thought: keep abortion, with restrictions for late-term abortion. [Given] the voting pattern I have, both sides would say I'm mixed and guess what? That's where the American people are."[47] He voted for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, which made the intact dilation and extraction abortion procedure illegal in most cases.[3] During debate on the House health care reform bill, he voted in favor of the Stupak–Pitts Amendment, restricting government funding of abortion.[48] On other social issues Neal has a moderate record: he supports a proposed Constitutional amendment to ban desecration of the U.S. flag, and has twice voted against an amendment to ban same-sex marriage.[3]



Your post seems to violates the ToS regarding bashing Democratic leaders.

[shanny]

4. "...he balanced his desire for health care reform

with the interests of the major health insurance and medical companies...." Which is the problem.

p.s. stating facts and quoting positions is not "bashing"