The relatively quick acceptance of the ACA shows why Medicare for All will win. [View all]

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For years the GOP campaigned on "repeal and replace". All we heard in the endless Bills submitted by the House, 60 or so if memory serves, was that the ACA was collapsing, and that the GOP had a plan.

We knew, of course, that the GOP had no actual plan for replacement, and no chance for repeal as long as they could not overcome a veto by then President Obama.

And then came 2016, and the stolen election, another stolen election, and the GOP would soon control all three branches of Government. So what happened? Repeal and replace was a disaster for the GOP, and now both parties are talking of strengthening the ACA. Why? Because people realize that we cannot return to the bad old days of 37 million with no healthcare.

That acceptance did not take decades to accomplish, it simply took the example of millions receiving healthcare for the first time. And those millions are in GOP controlled southern and western states as well as northern states.

Similarly, by titling the Bill Medicare for All, the Democrats are framing the issue in terms that are known and acceptable to all voters. Medicare is an American plan, and it is familiar and trusted by millions of voters for 50 plus years. People like Medicare.

Any talk of higher taxes must be met by Democrats with the fact that these higher taxes will replace what people are already paying in the form of insurance premiums. And Medicare operates on a lower overhead basis than does private, for profit insurance. And if Medicare is coupled with price regulation for drugs, as most other countries already do, there will be savings there also.