ObamaCare just got worse! Will it ever end?

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Locknuts said:

pokoko said:

No, it's on all of them.  Republicans had their chances to fix things and they did not.  Screw the partisan bullshit, both parties need to be raked over the coals for their failure to fix our terrible health care system. 

My understanding of the situation is that certain factions within the Dems (uncluding the current Presidential candidate) have always wanted Obamacare to fail.

It's too involved with the private sector for them and they want to replace it with totally publically funded healthcare. A good thing if your country can afford it and has no debt. The USA can't though.

From a social-democrat, progressive perspective Obamacare is shit as it is nothing remotely like what a proper publich health system (like NHS in the UK) is meant to be. This is why Bill Clinton said Obamacare is crap. The problem is wiithout progressive democrates controlling the House and Senate and presidency the USA won't legislate for anything more progressive.

The only upside is that Obamacare guarantees health insurance for everyone who wants it as no one can be refused cover. The problem is insurance companies apply actuarial tables to those plans which people who would be otherwise refused insurance are forced to buy, and as high risk patients their premiums are naturally high. 

If you are going to run a health insurance based system, then it is wrong to force health insurance on the otherwise uninsurable. If people apply for insurance and get turned down from the insurance free-market, or they are too poor to afford health insurance then they should be covered by medicaid. People who are insurable and in principle can afford insurance but elect not to have insurance should be left to their own devices.