Obamacare is a bridge to Medicare for ALL

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Repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) will take us back 8 years in our progress to provide healthcare for all U.S. citizens. Since the ACA started, fewer Americans have filed for personal bankruptcy....about 50%, from 1,536,799 in 2010 to 770,846 in 2016. Every year after the rollout of the Affordable Care Act in 2011, the bankruptcies went down. The first year, there was 174,000 less bankruptcies, 2012: 181,000 less, 2013: 163,00 less, 2014: 129,000 less, 2015: 90,000 less and 2016: 50,000 less. Without the Affordable Care Act, there would have been over 600,000 new bankruptcies filed over the course of that time frame. The ACA is a bridge to the ultimate goal of Medicare for All......which is possible if the so-called leaders of this country focus taxpayer money on domestic issues rather than funding the Military Industrial Complex and supporting major fossil fuel industries . Our government spends over $750 billion a year on a military that outspends the next 10 countries combined. If the USA ends the prohibition on MJ, that alone could bring in $6 billion in tax revenue annually. Coupled with setting drug offenders free, that would also lessen the tax burden for paying private prisons. That is another $500 million annually. Pumping $6.5 billion annually into the economy and reducing military spending in half would allow the government the flexibility to provide healthcare for all and create jobs in infrastructure projects and renewable energy systems . ...otherwise this country will regress back to a welfare state awaiting another depression.