Obamacare the worst of both worlds.

[DanieltheDragon]

Obamacare is not single payer. Obamacare is not Medicare/Medicaid for all. Obamacare is not a magic bullet that will solve our insurance woes.


There are some positives for sure:

Regulations on pre-existing conditions is widely popular.
Allowing children to stay on their parents health insurance after adulthood is huge.


Here is the nagging problem, while obamacare seeks to regulate the insurance industry like a single payer system it simultaneously tries to preserve a market profit driven approach, that also involves subsidizing insurance companies to keep rates artificially low.

Now there is more than one way to skin a cat for sure. This approach just seems to be the least efficient way to do it. Nor have we even really improved our cost of care Bloomberg has us 50 out of 55, we haven't really improved on the WHO ratings either. The only thing Obamacare really managed to accomplish is put 24 million folks on expensive ineffective health insurance.

In the end all Obamacare is, is a giant beuracratic handout to the insurance industry. Americans deserves something better.

[koko]

prior to ACA, Americans died at a rate of 45,000 per year:

Experts agree that many more will die if it is repealed:

The needless deaths of Americans is something we should condemn. Strangely enough those from the politically correct far right dismiss those deaths as if they were inconsequential. During the campaign Trump said everyone was going to get medical insurance coverage. So far, nothing.

Interestingly, when ACA was created, the deluded Republicans said it would create death panels. Ironically, it was the Republican mandated absence of health care coverage that created their own party's death panels which led to the needless deaths of 45,000 per year. Republicans used to call themselves the party of moral Christianity and of family values when, in fact, it has been the party of death panels. Now they want to end ACA without giving us an alternate plan that would protect vulnerable American lives. Clearly, the Republican have used Trump to re-claim their role as the party of American deaths.