Originally Posted by javacontour
But it also promised the average family would pay $2500 less / year.
When I looked last, on NPR no less, so not some right wing extremist site, the average family's costs were up by $2200/year, not down.
Pre ACA, 85 percent of Americans had coverage. Today, 90% (give or take a percentage point) have coverage. The ACA missed 2/3rds of the target.
I'd hardly call it a success.
Originally Posted by Wolf359
Originally Posted by grampi
eljefino...you left out one aspect of Obamacare, it screws 90% of the people so the other 10% can get cheap, or free healthcare...also not true about illegals, they are constantly breaking laws by being here illegally...
I'd like to see those statistics. Total number of people who had healthcare went up after Obamacare kicked in. It's a zero sum game, while it made it better for some, it also made it worse for others. When you design a zero sum game, it's impossible to make everyone a winner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game
Easy to criticize, hard to come up with a better solution that worked and would pass the house/senate. Previous solution wasn't great either which led to the ACA.
I think this has been rehashed several times. It only got passed once and there were tweaks they wanted to make to the system and political compromises made. It was that last 10% that didn't end up buying insurance. So their theory was that more would buy insurance which would lower everyone costs. That didn't happen and those that did sign up needed more services than expected. The penalty was watered down. They weren't able to pass any tweaks as they lost control in the senate. Also cost of health care was rising every year anyway, if it worked perfectly then it might have gone down. But it didn't.