The ACA was pretty good, yes! Health care cost inflation has been low since it was passed, thirty million more poor and sick people got health insurance, and it cost less than anticipated. If that’s not policy success I would love to hear what is. It’s not perfect, but it was pretty good. I know for me personally it’s the most meaningful piece of federal legislation enacted in my lifetime.
As for the Republicans being able to undermine it, it’s unlikely that many pieces of legislation are crafted (or should be crafted) to withstand an all out assault by a nihilistic minority party.
state to state competition
No one can afford it! The very fact it's called the ACA is an out right oxymoron. The ACA was the biggest pile of crap ever passed! There should have been common sense reform, regulation and state to state competition. But Congress can't even get that done FFS.
I have to disagree. To me, the ACA is like combating thievery by paying off thieves. Sure, crime is down and it didn't cost us as much as we thought it would, but its still a subsidy to an inherently flawed system with a single focus on the ends...and given the fragility of such a subsidy laden solution, very easy to dismantle or undermine.The ACA was pretty good, yes! Health care cost inflation has been low since it was passed, thirty million more poor and sick people got health insurance, and it cost less than anticipated. If that’s not policy success I would love to hear what is. It’s not perfect, but it was pretty good. I know for me personally it’s the most meaningful piece of federal legislation enacted in my lifetime.
As for the Republicans being able to undermine it, it’s unlikely that many pieces of legislation are crafted (or should be crafted) to withstand an all out assault by a nihilistic minority party.
It's good news, anything that makes our resident lefties throw a tantrum is good news for the country.
I have to disagree. To me, the ACA is like combating thievery by paying off thieves. Sure, crime is down and it didn't cost us as much as we thought it would, but its still a subsidy to an inherently flawed system with a single focus on the ends...and given the fragility of such a subsidy laden solution, very easy to dismantle or undermine.
The New Deal was architected to endure.
ACA is not on life support. Record number of enrollments this year.So let's pass a flawed piece of legislature just to pass legislature? The ACA is barely on life support.
Compare and contrast the ACA to the bold social programs of the New Deal that survived and endured.
Doesn't matter, as the ACA will not endure. The Democrats failed to stick the landing. Why repeal when you can undermine so it withers and dies.Meh, the only question that matters to me is if it made the system better or worse. The answer to me isn’t even close, it made things much better.
As to whether or not it would have been better to pass some sort of new deal universal health care well sure, but that wasn’t going to pass.
No one can afford it! The very fact it's called the ACA is an out right oxymoron. The ACA was the biggest pile of crap ever passed! There should have been common sense reform, regulation and state to state competition. But Congress can't even get that done FFS.
You realize the ACA was written with a public option to allow anyone to buy into medicare and republicans killed that option?Doesn't matter, as the ACA will not endure. The Democrats failed to stick the landing. Why repeal when you can undermine so it withers and dies.
I hope it dies. I've experienced European socialized medicine. I prefer the simplicity and elegance of a single payer system.
Doesn't matter, as the ACA will not endure. The Democrats failed to stick the landing. Why repeal when you can undermine so it withers and dies.
I hope it dies. I've experienced European socialized medicine. I prefer the simplicity and elegance of a single payer system.
all about those tears, fuck the consequences down the road, right waterboy?It's good news, anything that makes our resident lefties throw a tantrum is good news for the country.
Doesn't matter, as the ACA will not endure. The Democrats failed to stick the landing. Why repeal when you can undermine so it withers and dies.
I hope it dies. I've experienced European socialized medicine. I prefer the simplicity and elegance of a single payer system.
If the Democrats are too lazy to go to the polls and vote next cycle I will refuse to hear a word they say when they lose again.
I am not defending the GOP tax plan. I agree our tax code is in desperate need of reform, I do not agree with how they are going about it.ACA is not on life support. Record number of enrollments this year.
The legislation would have been less flawed had they eschewed falsely promised republican support.
Flawed legislation is ok as long as there is a commitment to work on it. The GOPs tax cuts have no commitment to work on it. In fact, the basic plan is to let all the tax cuts expire shortly but to leave all the major tax cuts for the uber rich in place. Its pretty blatant what they are trying to do. How can you defend this?
Doesn't explain the sustained popularity of Sanders. If only it had been his turn.America will never be able to get past the "s" word.
You realize how embarrassing it is to say things like that, right? ‘I know it’s good because it makes people I dislike mad’ is the sort of thinking a small child uses.
You should be furious with how they are going about it. Rather than fixing real loopholes and having real amendments to specific issues, they just created a massive reverse robin hood program for their big money donors.I am not defending the GOP tax plan. I agree our tax code is in desperate need of reform, I do not agree with how they are going about it.
If insurance companies lose their subsidies for low income enrollees and the healthy are able to pool outside of the exchanges, its dead, doesn't matter how many people want it.ACA is not on life support. Record number of enrollments this year.
The legislation would have been less flawed had they eschewed falsely promised republican support.
Flawed legislation is ok as long as there is a commitment to work on it. The GOPs tax cuts have no commitment to work on it. In fact, the basic plan is to let all the tax cuts expire shortly but to leave all the major tax cuts for the uber rich in place. Its pretty blatant what they are trying to do. How can you defend this?
I am furious. Its why I don't support this administration, no longer vote Republican and for the first time in my life pulled a lever for a Democrat.You should be furious with how they are going about it. Rather than fixing real loopholes and having real amendments to specific issues, they just created a massive reverse robin hood program for their big money donors.
Doesn't explain the sustained popularity of Sanders. If only it had been his turn.