outlawauron said:
Machiavellian said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/06/22/republicans-have-a-plan-to-replace-obamacare-and-its-costs-are-unclear/
This post from the Times says that Republicans have really done nothing to bring an actual replacement of Obamacare instead they have brought a lot of repeal to which was never going to get through the President. Lets be honest first, Republican have never voted or even wanted a government healthcare that covered all Americans because it was not in the best interest of Insurance carriers. People forget that it was Insurance carriers and healthcare advocates that were fine with getting paided at the expense of US Citizens and who lobbied against the ACA not for it.
Now these insurance companies are raising rates while they also tripple their CEO salary and claim they are not making money. The key is that they are not making hand over fist type of money on us so of course they want to raise rates and hope the ACA gets taken down.
As for the new Republican plan, there are some good and bad but the thing is, if they would come to a bipartisan table and hash out some of this stuff the ACA probably could be made stronger for all Americans without. Just opening the plan up for every state to compete would drastically improve the ACA in my opinion. The problem is that the ACA came from Obama and no matter what, Republicans do not want anything or helping anything from Obama.
I will go so far to say that if America was being attack by any eneny and Obama needed the Republican Congress to save us all, they would rather we burn then let Obama save America.
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That is the Washington Post, not the times and that is not the first new health care bill introduced by Republicans, just the first to make it to Obama.
But the insurance companies have benefitted far more from ACA than any person using their new insurance. That was supposed to be the case until the government didn't help out nearly as much as promised. Now that insurance companies know how much assistance they'll actually receive, up go the rates. I think many have already said that it's intentional sabotage to get a single payer system from Democratic leadership. That's their end goal imo.
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How exactly have the insurance companies benefited from the ACA when they say they are not making money and leaving the marketplace.. It really cannot work both ways. Do not forget the government is not just made of up the federal but also the states and how many of those Republican states have tried to underfund the ACA. Instead of giving it a chance to succeed they have done did everything they could to make it not work. Not because it is a bad plan but because it was put into place by a president they have tried to undermine since he came into Office.
In the original ACA, the single payer was in their but of course getting that through congress was never going to happen for the first pass.
