I’m just dying to see someone operationalize Medicare for All. Obama couldn’t even get a public option on the ACA with a very friendly legislature.
Pie in the sky promises to garner votes.
Under similar friendly conditions, a public option would fly today but that’s it. Oh course, pragmatic Pete Buttigieg got it right with his “provide a public option and they will come” comment. Damn right they will. Anyone tired of fighting with billing will. They’ll come in droves.
The "someone" that needs to do something to get M4A passed isn't in Washington, it's the mass of people organizing to gain concessions from Washington, and leveraging our power as the group that enables society to even function. The French government is afraid of its citizens, and has granted them multiple demands in the continuing Yellow Vest uprisings. The Puerto Rican protests forced a corrupt leader to step down. In the US, the shutdown of the federal government didn't end until there was tangible resistance in the form of airport workers basically threatening to ground the country if they didn't get paid. Teachers and students are striking together all over the place, hotel workers are forming unions, GM is denying health insurance to its striking workers and making national news, Amazon was in the spotlight due to public scrutiny of its wages... pressure works, it works fast, it works better than waiting for the right legislator, and it's as easy as agreeing to rely on each other for a little while--imagine if even half the working population went on a general strike, and demanded unconditional medicare for all. We'd have it next week.