Barrack Obama = Jimmy Carter 2.0

[Meep]

The Affordable Care Act was pretty cool...

The ACA is a pretty epic failure of a compromise on health care.

The only people rejoicing over that are health care service providers who get to make billions more in profit.

[TommyB]

The only people rejoicing over that are health care service providers who get to make billions more in profit.

Hmm..

As of May 2014, approximately 20 million Americans had gained health insurance coverage under the ACA, and the percentage of uninsured Americans dropped from 18% in 2013 to 13.4% in May 2014.

If it's so bad, why do people buy it tho?

[roman30]

Better a weak leader who doesn't accomplish much than a total nutcase like his predecessor.
And Obama has done fairly well at cleaning up the mess his predecessor created so I'd say he accomplished plenty, it's just not the bombastic headliner stuff of his predecessor, which was all about headlines and abso






naeem

[Meep]

Hmm..



If it's so bad, why do people buy it tho?

What? Just because it results in higher insurance rates doesn't make it a 'good' piece of legislation.

The 'affordable' care act did literally nothing to assure long term affordability of health care in the U.S. It just made it mandatory to have insurance, mandatory for businesses to provide it, and provided government subsidies for it.

I don't see how writing what amounts to a blank check to an industry already rife with hilariously inflated costs is in any way an effective long term solution.

There's a reason American health care is the most expensive in the world, while not even cracking the top 10 in effectiveness.