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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You say that, but when the Dems had a filibuster proof super majority in Congress for a handful of weeks over a decade ago, we got the ACA.

The ACA barely passed in its original form (219-212) with a bunch of democrats voting against it too. A few aligned themselves with big business however many other democrats voted against the ACA because they believe it didn't go far enough.

The ACA was still the biggest win for the American people on healthcare in decades.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, there were some pretty conservative Congress people back then. There no way we were gonna get enshrined abortion rights, since many Dems were staunchly pro-life, hence ACA as an alternative.