Republicans are about to make Medicare-for-all much more likely

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2. obamacare was originally created by the heritage foundation precisely as a right-wing alternative

to "hillarycare" hillary's healthcare plan that republicans called "big government"
and medicare-for-all.

these were both left/democratic ideas and the right-wing needed an alternative, so they came up with the market-based mandate concept. later, republican mitt rmoney rolled it out in massachusetts when he was governor.


obama's adoption of this plan was part pragmatic, part triangulation.
republicans turned against the plan mostly out of rank partisan political opposition, and partly because obama funded it with taxes on the rich.


but, yeah, the whole concept for the right-wing was to get something like obamacare in place instead of the more liberal alternatives. the won that battle when obama adopted their plan. ideologically, they should simply revise the tax structure, but they backed themselves into a corner by railing against obamacare (and the mandate in particular) for 7 solid years.

in the process, they made their own right-wing plan toxic, leaving only liberal alternatives.