Serious Question for Trump voters/supporters. Are you embarrassed by anything yet?

[Belsnickel]

(08-01-2017, 06:32 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Because many of those in Congress ran on some of the very same points in the President's agenda.  The biggest being the repeal and replace of the ACA.  The mere fact that Congress as an entity can't sit down and come up with a plan that works for most of Americans, is mind boggling.  Studies show that more people have been adversely affected by the ACA, than those who have benefitted from it.  Yet, when they consider going back to free market, Leftists complain that 24 Million Americans would then be without health care coverage.  However, I hear and read polls that say that without a mandate, over 15 Million Americans wouldn't even purchase coverage.  So, let's ponder for a moment, 24M minus 15M equals 9M, or roughly 3% of all Americans.  Certainly those in that 3% can be absorbed into some sort of medicade expansion program.

The issue is that those that really want a free market solution for health care would like to dismantle social insurance programs entirely. So expanding those programs in an effort to provide coverage for more Americans would be too much for them. You're not wrong, the estimate of 14-15 million losing insurance being those that would drop it if there was no mandate is accurate and would be the immediate loss. The remaining amount, which varies depending on the version of the bill, is a result of instability in the insurance market, premium increases, and a number of other things.

The ACA is bad policy. I say as much every time we have conversations about it. But it's also the most conservative way to increase health insurance coverage. In order for there to be a policy implemented that would increase those covered in the US, it would have to be a more liberal policy effort and would reach beyond just health insurance.

But anyway, this is the issue. Yeah, a lot of them ran on repeal and replace, but replace it with what?