The money quote:
"I think right now people want to see improvements in our health care system, and that means strengthening the Affordable Care Act," she told students at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics this week, while adding that she still wants to get to single payer eventually.
She also lost her older brother to COVID-19 between her dropping out and now.
The thing is, she said at the time she was campaigning that she'd take what she could get - while Bernie would likely sit there with his thumb up his ass if he doesn't get the perfect bill, and where Biden would by default ask for too little and bargain that away, she was in it to not only aim high but deliver something. People need help now, they needed it months ago, and if it means we go with a step of expanding the ACA and hopefully at least a public option, that's help today. If the Bernie Bros can prove they can win anything other than Twitter wars, hopefully they can push the party far enough to start getting more change, but they'll probably stay home and complain how unfair it is that finishing second doesn't let them decide everything.
Its also funny how all the candidates who were trashed on and supposedly worthy of being hated were still pushing health care plans that had no shot at actually happening anyway. People that love Bernie should be praying she is the VP because how could they ever end up with a better option in that spot?
Its good that Bernie pushed the topic to the left but there are clearly a lot of people who are delusional and think Medicare 4 All would have happened if he won.
Incrementalism is bad they will say but a Bernie Presidency would have been no different. We don't elect Kings.