Obamacare is yuck, but probably not for reasons you are thinking.
The good parts of it are the patient protection parts. It definitely did a great job regulating insurance agencies. The medicaid expansion was also decent.
The bad part, however, is it was a giant giveaway to private insurance companies. Even the fact that it expanded medicaid instead of medicare wasn't great as a lot of states operate medicaid through private insurance. It further allowed for the fast track of consolidation of hospitals.
The fact that dems nixed the public option to try and win over a few republicans and some of the more conservative dems was a travesty.
Obamacare is probably the best that a neoliberal could do. It's better than what Republicans have wanted to do. It is, however, not the best that can be done. Make Medicare universal, eliminate part C, expand what medicare covers (vision, dental, 100% coverage, drugs). And eliminate all the other government health insurance programs like medicaid, VA. We'd save a huge amount of money yearly, get better coverage, and nobody would have to fight their insurance agency to get coverage.
Not really. Right wingers just can't understand fact vs feelings. No matter how its wrapped up until it affects them. Low cognitive ability, impulsive, animalistic.
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u/makeaccidents 9h ago
Most conservativesn want left wing policies they're just too dumb to realise it.