Ted Rall's Bernie Bio Has Extra Relevance in the Wake of the Democrats' Presidential Defeat

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The Affordable Care Act forces people to buy for-profit private insurance policies or pay a fine. Certainly people who had no access to coverage at all have been helped by subsidies or medicaid expansion, but people have been harmed as well. A friend of mine was able to have his first child because he'd never had coverage before. On the contrary, my sister who lives in NYC lost her existing coverage and was forced onto a plan that did not cover any out of network or out of state expenses, and was not accepted by any of her cancer doctors.

A market based solution that looks a lot like RomneyCare is hardly a win for liberals.

And on gay marriage, as someone who was out on the streets working on marriage equality referendums, this was a victory by activists through state by state action and ultimately in the courts. I don't recall a Democratic piece of legislation that passed marriage equality for the nation.

I do think the author of this piece is too hard on the Democratic Party, but that's not to pretend that the party hasn't drifted to the right.