SmaptyWolf said:
caryking said:
SmaptyWolf said:
hokiewolf said:
Might be trans, but not wrong.
Yeah, bullsh**. Republicans have worked to ratfu** the ACA every step of the way, and completely removed one of the three legs of the stool, the mandates, which was key to widening the risk pool and making the affordability math work. Since then the ACA has been limping along with subsidies. Biden's expanded subsidies barely scraped through with the "help" of Joe Manchin, who was a massive tool who insisted that they not be permanent. So here we are.
Let's put aside the merits of funding the ACA, for a moment…
did you support the concept of government compelling a person to buy something?
The ACA mandate didn't apply to anyone who couldn't afford it, and there were a bunch of other loopholes, but no, it wouldn't have been my first choice. Single payer would have been a lot better... and somehow Americans can deal with taxes a lot better than "OMG being forced to buy something".
But despite the MAGA fan fiction Obama was almost pathologically bipartisan. He could have rammed through single payer, but he mistakenly thought Republicans would embrace their own "free market" health care idea more. So he took RomneyCare, rebranded it, and voila! The mandates were a Republican idea, because it's the only way to make risk pools work while keeping existing insurance company middlemen intact. Of course Republicans rejoiced! Just kidding... by sundown their own health care plan became Marxism.
Anyway, I take it you want to go back to "the good ol days"?
- Health care costs spiraling to oblivion even faster
- Being denied health insurance at all for an ever growing list of preexisting conditions
- Being dumped from your insurance the second you get sick, generally being forced to declare bankruptcy while dealing with cancer
Of course you do.
Between gutting the expanded ACA subsidies and trashing Medicaid in general, all Republicans have managed to accomplish is dramatically increasing the number of people who will now use the emergency room as their primary care doctor. Great work!
I think the mandate was for anyone not insured. If you couldn't afford Insurance, you received it for free and on the backs of taxpayers.
RomneyCare was a joke, just like ObamaCare. I don't remember hearing anyone supporting RomneyCare when they learned about it, except big government ideologues...
Now, I'm not opposed to some simple laws managing how Insurance Providers operate. What they are? I'm not sure. Personally, I'd like to see a complete overhaul of all laws governing Insurance and start over with something simple.
Single payer doesn't work anywhere, unless you dont spend money on other things, like Military. For all these great country's you will call out, I bet they damn near completely rely on the US for defense.
Smapty, is health insurance a right? If so, how does a person get that right?
Understand, I am separating Health Insurance from Health Care as they are two different things. One is a means of performing a service for sickness and the other is a payment method. Don't conflate the two...