Heidi Heitkamp writes in Opinions: Democrats, don’t ditch the ACA for Medicare-for-all
By Heidi Heitkamp May 8 at 5:03 PM Heidi Heitkamp, a former Democratic senator from North Dakota , is the founder of the One Country Project.
An area of particular alarm is health care. With Republicans in disarray — unable to legislate or even agree among themselves on a reasonable path forward — this issue is one of the Democratic Party’s greatest strengths. Under President Barack Obama’s leadership, Democrats in Congress did the right thing in 2010 by passing the Affordable Care Act.
Campaigning on Medicare-for-all, Democrats would give Trump a costly, drastic proposal to attack. Better to put Trump on defense about health care, forcing him to answer for his relentless attacks on the ACA, challenging its constitutionality in the courts and endangering coverage for about 20 million Americans who have benefited from the law.
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