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In reply to the discussion: News About Obamacare Has Been Bad Lately. How Bad? [View all]tularetom
(23,664 posts)32. The "affordable" care act has done nothing to make care more affordable
But it it has made it less affordable for a larger number of people.
People who could not even get insurance can now get it but at a cost beyond their ability to pay.
As the subsidies disappear, more and more Americans will simply walk away from Obamacare and the health care funding situation will simply revert to the status quo ante.
In five years, maybe a couple more, it will be like Obamacare never happened. And the country will have pissed away ten years on a failed half assed solution to the health care crisis.
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Or ... the ACA is the mostest worstest disasterousest thing ever! because, Obama.
pampango
Apr 2016
#2
A vacuum doesn't suck; the air behind pushes. Gravity is not "just is"; it requires presence of mass
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2016
#21
Hell, people just above the expanded medicaid cutoff will get squeezed, too.
strategery blunder
Apr 2016
#5
Medicare for All, including dental, optical, hearing aids and mental health services.
Scuba
Apr 2016
#7
Perhaps we should consider a national public insurance system funded through taxes
Warren Stupidity
Apr 2016
#12
The affordable care act also included provisions that have led to tests for other models for paying
karynnj
Apr 2016
#19
This has already happened to us & will indeed be the demise of the whole house of cards that is ACA
Kip Humphrey
Apr 2016
#35
It's a cluster $%^%. According to every healthcare provider I have talked to. nt
clarice
Apr 2016
#40