IceQube
October 31, 2013, 3:31pm
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Dob:
I’m confused by this mantra by the right on “Obamacare is a trainwreck”. Do they realize that a nice chunk of the ACA is already in palce and working today? And has been for a couple years now? And while the federal exchnage website stinks, the state based exchanges are doing just fine and seeing some nice growth?
The yelling and screaming about folks not able to get healthcare is funny since most of those people trying to get healthcare dont have it today, and if we do nothing won’t have it tomorrow either. So the republican plan to fix folks not able to get healthcare thru the federal exchange is to… not allow anyone at all, anywhere, to get healthcare?
Yes, some folks whose junk policies dont meet the new guidelines lost their policy. But we have created a system that will allow 40 million people to GET healthcare that didn’t have it before. Keep in mind too that some of the 40 million un-insured include folks with jobs, family, etc… who can’t get healtcare because of pre-existing conditions, or have spent the previous life-time caps. Should they be screwed because some healthy 20 year old is upset his “emergency coverage” plan is cancelled? He can get another plan easily… but the folks suffering thru no fault of their own have been screwed for far to long.
I’m not 100% happy with ACA (we should have done better) but im 0% happy that for decades we have turned a blind eye to the folks who needed our help the most. ACA is a start, and its about time we started something.
Doing NOTHING isn’t a policy or a platform.
No, it’s not doing nothing. It’s repealing the federal overreach and letting states decide what to do with their uninsured citizens. Obamacare has the fig leaf of federalism. Let’s take our founding philosophy a little further than this socialized catastrophe of medicine that only a black person could have “thought” of.