2016 Postmortem

As opposed to Trump, who pretty much just talked about getting rid of the ACA. Now there's word he may keep certain portions but do away with the mandate. Guess what happens when you do away with the mandate? Only sick people will buy the insurance. Guess what happens to premiums when only sick people buy the insurance?

It's not the fault of Dems that tens of millions of people can't think critically, that the media did a piss-poor job of covering Clinton's message (so much so that you seem to think she ignored the issue of health care costs), and that tens of millions of people subscribe to the most patently false beliefs imaginable.

Irrational hatred for Clinton, racism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, anti-political correctness (or what some of us call human decency), FBI interference, a pathetic mainstream media (that promotes false equivalencies, only cares about ratings and doesn't think fact checking is its job) and voter suppression (Shelby County v. Holder 5-4 decision of 2013) were all much bigger factors than the economic issue messaging. People sold by "We're looking at jobs--big league jobs" were never going to vote for Clinton.

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2016/07/09/hillary-clintons-commitment-universal-quality-affordable-health-care-for-everyone-in-america/

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/health-care/