No, President Obama Is Not A Hall-of-Fame-Worthy BS Artist, aka Why I Defend The ACA

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43. I could not disagree more strongly.

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Gently, and with acknowledgement that you have been helped, what you just wrote, like what the OP wrote, sounds a lot like, "I've got mine."

You can benefit personally from the ACA while also realizing that it is a corporate-written and lobbied creation that perpetuates and enables the MOST predatory aspects of the health system in this country....and that, as a result, the profiteering is protected and millions will continue struggling to afford care.

We have watched as the corporate talking points have shifted from promising huge decreases in premiums, to arguing that Obama promised only reductions in increases (I know *you* didn't say that, but it's a frequent talking point here and why I keep the below video handy: to correct the constant rewriting of history)...and now to focusing on the subsidies.

But the subsidies mask the real problem. Some individuals are helped by them, certainly, but millions more will still be trapped paying for high-deductible, low-benefit plans they cannot afford to use. But the most important point is that ALL OF US end up paying the subsidies TO THE INSURANCE COMPANIES for these still obscenely expensive plans instead of what SHOULD have happened, which was to eliminate the profitmongering from the system and focus instead on real cost controls.

Leaping on those who point out the impact of this corporate bait-and-switch on real people and families besides the OP gives the impression, at least, of being more interested in protecting the reputation of those responsible for this corporate sop than pushing for something better.