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By saying these things happened during Obama's presidency, you make it sound like his administration is somehow to blame. * The housing bubble burst before he
by extra88 10y ago
By saying these things happened during Obama's presidency, you make it sound like his administration is somehow to blame.
* The housing bubble burst before he was elected
* The WSJ chart projects private insurance costs being 100% above 2007 rates not now but in 2023. The chart also doesn't show what the rate of change before 2007. Obamacare contained huge compromises to get passed, hasn't even been fully implemented, and has had its implementation hampered by Congress's inaction and some Republican-led states. Its primary mission was give the uninsured access to insurance, not to keep insurance affordable for those who already have it. It was never going to solve the cost increases, at best it could ease the rate of change a bit, and it has, a little.
* Tuition rates increases are a long-standing trend, long before 2009. There are multiple factors, only some of which are practically correctable through politics.
Bernie did a lot more cursing the incumbents, Trump seems to focus more on brown foreigners. Bernie also described actual plans instead of handwaving and random adjectives like "beautiful" and "great." But you can completely ignore me because I've always supported Clinton.