>>Related topic - the "Sister Souljah" award of the year goes to Bill Clinton, who blasted ACA this week for the negative impact on the lower-middle and middle-income Americans. Jeez, what person here on the UT has talked about how much this current administration
has harmed the lower-middle and middle-income Americans???? :)

LOL. What you had to say about ACA is completely different from Clinton's real life context- which is that his wife has key proposals to enhance the ACA mainly for the middle class which is one of the big focuses of her candidacy. Her ACA proposals include a public option to compete with expensive private options, tax credits for people with very high healthcare needs, and the right for retirees who aren't 65 yet, to buy into Medicare rather than expensive private options.

These proposals become acceptable now that the US public has some experience with the ACA. Imagine the furore if Obama tried to propose a public option... oh that's right, he did- and it almost cost the whole ACA. But now people realize that the sky has not fallen and that FUDMeisters had the wrong end of the stick, so it's time for sensible discussion.

Clinton confirmed his meaning when he followed up: "Look, the Affordable Health Care Act did a world of good, and the 50-something efforts to repeal it that the Republicans have staged were a terrible mistake. We, for the first time in our history, at least are providing insurance to more than 90% of our people. But there is a group of people -- mostly small business owners and employees -- who make just a little too much money to qualify for Medicaid expansion or for the tax incentives who can't get affordable health insurance premiums in a lot of places. And the reason is they're not in big pools. So they have no bargaining power."

Clinton is not trashing the whole ACA or calling it crazy. He's agreeing with his wife's calls for ongoing enhancement. People like Trump, Pence and their ilk may like to pretend the ACA should have been perfect from the get go and that enhancement means failure, but that's just silly.