Union Letter: Obamacare Will ‘Destroy The Very Health and Wellbeing’ of Workers

[Nay]

162. Thank you. That's been my point for a while. The ACA is not just a diversion from the

sort of intelligent health care system that other first-world countries have developed; it is a setback even from the crap system we had already. It will not be 'tweakable' except by corporations, and it will effectively put off far into the future any rational implementation of, say, a Canadian-type system because all the anti-govt teabaggers will have in the ACA a new talking point about how "awful gubmint-run healthcare is." Repubs will be happy to tinker with ACA until it is as bad as they can make it, just to prove that a 'govt-run system' is worthless. It's a clusterfuck all the way around.

Yes, I understand that some people will get coverage when they had none before. That's good. But many more will be paying the penalty instead. The end result, taken as a whole, will not be good.