Quote (IceMage @ Mar 21 2017 05:07pm)
But you would acknowledge Obamacare needs improvements, right? What should be done?
It definitely can be improved, plus I'm someone who thinks everything can be improved if you're willing to work in good faith. The key to addressing any deficiencies in the ACA is to be honest about what caused them, their actual scope, and how they could actually be solved. Almost every single notable deficiency (arbitrary coverage gaps, lack of competition in some areas, ineffectual state insurance commissioners, market instability) exists because nearly the entire GOP not only opposed it but actively sabotaged it in every manner they could so that as many people as possible would end up with worse care at higher cost than necessary. If we cut out their nonsense then the job of improving it would be much easier.
The subsidies have to be increased for middle-income earners. Medicaid expansion in all 50 states. The individual mandate tax penalty has to be much higher. State Insurance Commissioners who aren't purposefully trying to sabotage the law. You can make a lot of changes that would help, but unless you cut out the sabotage there's only so much you can do.
Quote (Beowulf @ Mar 22 2017 07:40am)
good thing they are leading by example and not hypocritical cucks by taking their time on it and aren't trying to push it through even more rapidly than the democrats did
Still one of my favorite "truths" that have just somehow became an article of fact for so many people. The debate on the ACA took 20 months end-to-end and you could even make the argument that it was far longer than that.
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