But, but, very serious pundits keep saying that Democrats are running on nothing but Trump hatred. 1/ nytimes.com/2018/08/01/ups…
I've always explained the Affordable Care Act in terms of pre-existing conditions. If you want to cover those, you need to ban discrimination by insurers. But then you need something to get healthy people to sign up, so something like the mandate 2/
And you can't mandate insurance without subsidies to make it affordable. So the logic of covering pre-existing conditions, which the vast majority wants, requires either single-payer or something very much like Obamacare 3/
Republicans did very well for years by pretending not to understand this logic. But it may be catching up with them 4/
