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In reply to the discussion: Obama says Sanders' supporters helped undermine Obamacare [View all]OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)If you have fought for single payer and not gotten it, then you vote to get what you can get because it will increase coverage, that is an example of not "letting the perfect be the enemy of the good." Voting NO because it was a shitty bill that benefited insurance companies more than anyone else would have been "letting the perfect be the enemy of the good."
Sanders voted for the ACA. He did not let the enemy be the perfect of the good. He never said it was wonderful. It isn't wonderful. People having to pay $2100 a month for health insurance that still has $2000 deductibles is not wonderful.
Nor was Bernie complacent and saying the ACA is good enough. It isn't and never was. So he continues to fight for better. He's not cool with the status quo of the ACA. And neither are most progressives.
That's why it makes ZERO SENSE AT ALL to say he should not have voted for it.