>> So according to your read of the Gallup graph, ACA is responsible for 33% of Americans (that's what ?90+Million people) putting off medical care due to cost,
No; clearly, some people were putting off health care due to cost before ACA.
But any argument that ACA is making health care more "affordable" has qualified with, "Maybe for some, at least."
Some people undoubtedly do better under ACA; but some people do worse. And the number who do worse is probably higher, which was the genesis of this conversation.
Again, this amounts to innumeracy. You're a smart person, you ought to be able to understand that the country doesn't have unlimited money. We're putting a couple trillion dollars into this fiasco, and we damned well ought to be getting some pretty serious bang for those bucks. (Okay, let's hear the obligatory, "But the Wars!" comeback).
Even if you could make the argument people's lives were improved, which you cannot, you certainly cannot make the argument that it was money well spent. That we couldn't have done far more for far less money had the objective been to improve people's lives rather than what it was (to get SOME KIND of health care reform law enacted, regardless of content). |
