"THE DEBATE MUST BE ABOUT RATIONING, END-OF-LIFE MANDATES, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS' COVERAGE, AND DESTRUCTION OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR."Wrong: it must be about ALL of it, including the financials: full-court press; pressure any & everywhere it can be applied. Anything half-hearted or incomplete will fail.
Before Demonrats will surrender this issue, it must be clear that there is nowhere to hide, no cover to scurry under.
I repeat, if this debate ends up about "budgets" and "deficits," we've already lost, because no one cares about budgets and deficits. If they did, they would have said so a long time ago. Seniors don't because they won't be around to bear the burden; and young people don't because they live in a la-la land of thinking it will never be real.
So I repeat. If this becomes about whether we can "afford it," the game is over.