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In reply to the discussion: Why the Supreme Court Should Kill ‘Obamacare’ [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,406 posts)if "Obamacare" gets struck down, a bipartisan group of legislators would get together and come up with a better plan to replace it. As should be painfully obvious by now, we don't live in that particular world with the Republican Tea Party running amok. The fact that we BARELY got what we got should remove any doubts as to whether we could have gotten something better or even single payer. We should IMHO consolidate our gains under the new law, make sure the key benefits get implemented, then work like hell to get a progressive majority elected to Congress to help tweak the law and fix some of its flaws and perhaps make it into the single-payer system that we want. The Republicans want to destroy it completely and take us back to health care system as it existed on 03/22/10 and before and will not fix a g-d single thing! We need to mend the law NOT end it IMHO but the only way that will happen is if we get a progressive majority elected to Congress and/or state legislatures willing to do it. Let's stop sitting around talking about what we didn't get. Let's figure out what we want and elect people whom promise to deliver it!