Quote (Skinned @ Apr 21 2016 06:34am)
All the patient rights and protections have been amazing too. Actual service delivery has been better. More people using primary care doctors for their problems than the ER. More people are doing preventative health care. Social determinants of health are being recognized. There is more mental health parity.
Lots is great things that can't be measured in terms of how much richer rich guys get profiteering from health care.
Oh, absolutely. The ACA has been without question an immense success. It's unbelievable just how wide-reaching the successes have been in a little less than 2.5 years of open enrollment plus the additional years of lead-in. People forget that it added years of solvency to Medicare without any benefit cuts. The Medicaid expansion has saved lives and improved health. And, like most social insurance programs, Congress' budget estimators overestimated its cost while underestimated its savings in the initial estimations, which is why most of the CBO/JCT/CRS reports that have been done since the original find it costing less and less, and it already started as a deficit-neutral law.
That people complain about this thing at all is laughable. That simple act alone shows the depth of their policy ignorance. If they want to find tax revenue somewhere in the budget, they can find it much better somewhere else. If they want to cut excess expenditures, they can find it much better somewhere else. There's absolutely zero ideological or political rationale for attacking the ACA; it should be strengthened and expanded.