We won in 2018 thanks to emphasizing healthcare

thanks to the genius of Pelosi.

We highlighted the ACA with its pre existing conditions that the Rs led by Trump wanted to, still do, to remove.

Most of the new members who flipped the Rs seat are moderate.

Yet, I cannot find any other term - I find that his race has been hijacked by Medicare for All that includes elimination of private insurance, even though we know that most voters like them. Or, at least, do not want them gone.

And I wonder: how many jobs will be eliminated? Is this part of the $30 trillion cost?

I propose that the main focus of this campaign should be infrastructure and I went back to a story from April, Klobuchar's proposal

https://www.democraticunderground.com/13006

Sen. Klobuchar’s plan would focus on improving highways and bridges, including the nation’s more than 50,000 bridges deemed structurally deficient, while enhancing the nation’s seaports, airports and rail systems.

It would also emphasize fixing schools facing disrepair, improving public transit systems serving low-income neighborhoods, and strengthening wastewater treatment systems to provide clean drinking water. Sen. Klobuchar’s proposal would also provide Midwest communities dealing with extensive flooding with greater flood protection, an issue the senator is expected to discuss this week in Iowa. She would also set a goal of connecting every home to the internet by 2022, a concern in rural communities.

Beyond the $650 billion in federal funding, Ms. Klobuchar’s plan would create an independent infrastructure financing authority that would leverage $250 billion to $300 billion in direct loans and loan guarantees and issue a series of bonds that would support nearly $400 billion in investments in projects.

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I don't remember infrastructure mentioned much, if at all, in the debates. The debates were hijacked by Medicare for all - or not - by impeachment and by Ukraine. Even Klobuchar has not been talking much about it.

We heard again, today, about a house exploded because, perhaps, gas line. Our gas lines are old and decaying. The Subway in New York is old and decaying. Many bridges and channels are no longer adequate. And, of course, investing in infrastructure would create jobs at all skill levels, across the country. Instead of losing jobs by Medicare for All, jobs would be created. Paychecks would be invested in the communities, in, yes, purchasing health insurance, in affording a roof over one's head.

I will use a medical term - triage: "the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties."

When we finally kick Trump from office, and please, let it be next year, we will have to use triage. There will be so many directions that we should to that we will have to assign degrees of urgency. And I claim that infrastructure should come ahead of healthcare. Why? Because it will affect many more people. It is "kitchen table" issues. Most voters will get it.

Yes, many are still uninsured. Many struggle with payments but at least they have access to some kind of healthcare.