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Originally Posted by OldJeff
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.
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"If you like it you can keep it" - unfortunately that was not true. A lot of people's old plans became illegal under obamacare and couldn't be offered. A lot of uncertainty in the market place was created, in an individual level and on the corporate level:
The 7 million new sign ups isn't indicative that 7 million more people are insured, hardly. I'm one of those people who lost their insurance and has to re-sign up. Everyone I know who was self insured in California, was dropped by their company.
It's a huge number of people who had their plans dropped and then had to re-sign up, likely for more expensive plans. I'm sure on the big business level there are losers as well. As in for some companies obama are forced companies to lay people off, move them from full time to part time, lower other benefits like retirement matching to pay for the added costs of obamacare, etc etc etc.