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(14,920 posts)I am not sure that I disagree. I know that when it passed, I agreed with you, believing that it was worse than no bill at all. I am not certain that I do anymore. I have seen some benefits come about due to the program, and I have as yet not seen anything that has been made worse by the bill.
I am still quite certain that the bill was a capitulation and the throwing away of a rare opportunity that President Obama had to really change the course of our country. Compared to what he could have gotten if he had really pushed, what passed is pathetic. I agree with you 100% that we need to completely nuke the for profit insurance industry. for the good of the country we need to Change. I would be for to medicare for all. Or actual socialized medicine, such as England has. Or a strictly regulated completely non-profit health insurance industry such as I understand France to have. There are a handful of good examples we could follow.
But I am not certain that Obamacare is worse than nothing at all. I am not convinced that "scrap it", when there is absolutely no alternative possible at this time, is the way to go. Purely on a health care level. On a politics level, even less.