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Serious questions (and this isn't a slam against 'publicans): Why do Republicans hate Obamacare? Why did they try 50?51? times to repeal it? Why did the Koch Brothers fund ads to scare people away from it?
Just being a curious Canadian is 'all...
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OK, I am not a Republican, but here is why I hate it.
It actually does very little to solve the problem of health care costing too much.
The "affordable" plans it offers are less than shit in actual coverage, and the people using it have the same access to doctors they ever had.
It is nothing more than a cleverly designed tax increase (well actually not so cleverly designed) but well sold to the masses.
There were a couple good things to come out of it, no denial for preexisting conditions, etc. Kids being able to stay on their parents policy until after college and some time to get a job with benefits.
The system is still wide open for fraud from the medical industry (which is HUGE in the area of unnecessary tests), the money wasted on the website, (To a Canadian company no less), seriously any tech guy from this business that has handled any major program could have set up that site for how much ? a million, 2 million.Hell call it 20 million still a fraction, and it would have worked.
Smoke and mirrors, the core of American politics.