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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (41393)	3/10/2017 8:36:53 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

I think these are worth a little discussion, yes? Very little, since they were beaten to death nearly a decade ago. Give some examples of how they were made worse off I never knew a lot about this since I had no background in it and it didn't apply to me but there was a functioning individual health care market prior PPACA. You recall, the "if you like your insurance you can keep your insurance." Apparently, a lot of people did, and couldn't, and had to pay a lot more for what they liked less. let's examine the extent to which this worsening is an acceptable trade off in exchange for 20M+ additional people, who had no insurance at all before ACA, now have it. I don't buy the notion of beggaring some to benefit others. I'm no utilitarian. Particularly not when something could have been developed that worked better for both. Also, having "insurance" is not the same as having access. The builders of Obamacare got caught up in having a policy as a proxy for having health care and it's not a valid proxy. Makes a nice flag to wave, though. And let's examine the degree to which the ACA would have insured even more people if republicans in Washington and at states would have cooperated rather than opposed the implementation of the law. That's a fact. Nothing to discuss. And let's not forget the process of improving the law, which republicans have refused to do, despite the fact that many of the provisions of the law are now present in the "replacement" they have put forth. Pots and kettles aren't interesting enough to discuss plus they both tend to get grimy.