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YarnAddict

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2. It wasn't the lobbyists

Reply to still_one (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 08:31 AM

Feb 2015

It was the voters. The ACA has never been popular (although elements of it have been.) In fact, nearly all the Dem senators who voted for it have either been voted out, or retired to avoid having to face their electorate.

This was never a good bill. It helped some people, to some extent, but it was supposed to solve the problem of the uninsured, and it didn't. Deductibles and co-pays have kept it out of the hands of those who needed it most.

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ACA 2.0 [View all] McCamy Taylor Feb 2015 OP

When the ACA passed, Democrats controlled both houses. They could have done universal health care still_one Feb 2015 #1

It wasn't the lobbyists YarnAddict Feb 2015 #2

It was the only thing that would have passed at that time, and when you say it has never been still_one Feb 2015 #3

Believe me, I know about the subsidies YarnAddict Feb 2015 #4

Even when Democrats just barely had nominal control of both houses... Silent3 Feb 2015 #5

I don't think so. They floated Medicare for those 55 and older at the time, and those still_one Feb 2015 #7

'fix it later' -- as if. let's be real, there is no intention to fix it, or enact a single payer KG Feb 2015 #6