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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
The reason the US doesn't have nationalized healthcare: 1. Wage freezes during WW2, allowed businesses to add healthcare as a non-cash comp increase 2. Truman tried to nationalize the healthcare system after the war, labor unions and doctors (AMA) did not want it. So lobbied the Democratic admin / Congress to nix it. 3. Healthcare tied to work became further entrenched, led to the rise of a massive healthcare insurance industry 4. When Obama had supermajority in Congress (filibuster proof!), Democrats let insurance companies and AMA weaken the law. There was nothing Republicans could do to stop the law from being passed. Just special interests. 5. Further, Republican Congress under Trump did not repeal Obamacare despite claiming to want to (because many Republican congresspeople are from high healthcare use districts). And conservative majority Supreme Court upheld the law! https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/7871.pdf
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Alex
@asenderling.eth
On point 5: McCain's thumbs down vote in the Senate was huge. He was one of the few R's to resist Trump's pressure and bullying (likely because that asshole mocked him for being a PoW), and did not like the way they were trying to carelessly rush the bill through Congress, which was his primary critique of the ACA.
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Alex
@asenderling.eth
This is one of the prime examples of Trump's utter failure to achieve any major legislation. The bull in a China shop can destroy things, demand things, but other than 'legislating' through executive order, all he could really achieve was a massive deficit increase through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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