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The ACA is the best he could do. It’s not like a US President can just go around like a wrecking ball ignoring all established law and checks and balances.
The Democrats briefly had a super majority in Obama's first 2 years, and could have passed universal healthcare, not this limp dick ACA stuff, but yet here we are. Stuck with a patchwork of terrible private insurance where your policy has lifetime maximums, and the shareholders can sentence you to death so that line goes up.
You can thank Schumer for that as well.
Ultimately, even Democratic politicians are beholden to wealthy donors, including those associated with the health insurance industry.
In this post-Citizens-United world, the only way to make real change is to have a bunch of people willing to not hold onto power to do the right thing simultaneously. Sadly, the likelihood of that happening is vanishingly small.
Incorrect, it was 58 DNC and for only 72 days.
Who would support a citizen cooperative that offers a good private insurance? Under the given circumstances that could be the easiest way to get universal healthcare.
You mean like a health sharing ministry? Good ****ing luck, mate.
Starting our own competitive insurance companies that aim for a 25% of operating costs equivalent liquid asset stockpile and then after that 0% yoy profits could be wildly successful, but the major issue is still that medical prices get set by a cooperation between insurers and hospital corporations and state boards. If we have no method to control prices, like a government would, then people will still suffer and die due to unaffordable care.
Ha... If this was sarcasm, it's been underappreciated.