“The short-term strategy is, win the House of Representatives,” stated the former president, garnering applause. “Because that’s going to be the circuit breaker that will give us control of one major component of the federal government. With that as a bulwark, we’re now able to block some of the worst impulses that are coming out of this White House.”
The former president laid out a two-pronged strategy for Democrats: to reclaim a House majority next year, and to work on honing the party’s messaging in the coming years.
“Long term, let’s tell a story, a better story about who we are as Americans and what we share,” Obama said, according to excerpts shared with CBS News. “We have to tell the story that makes people who feel outside that process, we’ve got to bring them back in.”
Tbf Obama also did more for the working class than Trump ever did or will. ACA alone covers that. The issue is brainlets getting brainwashed by rightwing propaganda.
ACA was a gift to insurance companies. It was cowritten by the heritage foundation ffs.
It still managed to help a hell of a lot of working class people. It’s a net positive in my book.
As a working class person, my rates doubled every year for the first 4 years I was on ACA. When they got to $800 a month I cancelled my insurance and decided to take the tax penalty instead.
That happened to all plans during that time period, not just ACA plans.
But it happened because of ACA.
How do you figure?
The 80/20 rule. Under the ACA, insurance companies are only allowed to pull profits from 20% of the premiums. So they raise the premiums until that 20% is covering the profits they were making before the ACA.
Tell me how many people are getting hurt by republicans cutting it, then cry about “gift to insurance companies” again. The kind of take that only people too privileged to not need it would have.
I thought you guys didn’t like the Heritage Foundation?
You probably love bump stocks because Trump banned them huh. Even if there could be something better than ACA, until the political climate in the US allows for that, it’s still better than nothing.
Even ACA, the hEriTaGe CrEaTioN, is constantly being successfully shot at by conservatives. What chance in hell do you think there is of implementing and sustaining a socialist alternative? Until the country stops being braindead enough to elect MAGA-level candidates, it won’t happen.
Yeah you’re right, those people are way better off being required by law to purchase a product from a private company that doubles its rates every year. Who needs a public option?
He had the opportunity to give everyone universal health care and instead he chose to give us the half-baked “solution” that is utterly dependent on republican good will while also driving up health insurance profits, leaving us more reliant on middlemen insurance companies than ever before.
So yeah, people are hurting without it, but don’t pretend like it was some nice gift. It was a token that was tossed our way so we wouldn’t ask for more.
Obama had the opportunity to “give us universal health care”? When?
It was Congress that killed the public option btw.
Both things are true. It was obviously a gift to the insurance industry, but it doesn’t mean that it didn’t help millions of people.
For a solid chunk of time in Obama’s first term the Dems controlled all branches of government but did not pass any of the progressive legislation that he campaigned on, like universal healthcare.
I acknowledge that it helped millions of people, but that doesn’t mean that the ACA wasn’t a rug pull on the American people as a whole in the long run.
Wasn’t Ted Kennedy dying and Joe Leiberman (I) ,who normally caucused with Democrats, went across the aisle and sided with republicans.