05-04-2017, 05:28 PM
(05-04-2017, 05:23 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I'm not saying that this will be any better than the ACA, but lets not pretend the ACA was great. Everyone I know (middle and lower-middle class) ended up paying more because of it/couldn't afford to use their health insurance anymore, and the ACA wasn't working out financially anyway. (Not that I know this new thing will be able to, either.)
What I am saying is, we likely just traded a turd sandwich for a poopsicle.
The ACA was the most conservative option to increase the number of people with access to health care. It was a scheme thought up by the Heritage Foundation decades ago. The GOP was pissed about it because Obama made it happen. Any option that is thought up that moves health care to a more conservative model is going to result in fewer people with access to health care. Period.
If we want to fix the system, and we should, we need to make it so people can actually afford health care, not make it worse for them.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
