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> passed a useless health care act This is unsupported opinion and does not serve to strengthen the rest of your statements: While the act certainly may have

> passed a useless health care act This is unsupported opinion and does not serve to strengthen the rest of your statements: While the act certainly may have been useless to you, it was literally a matter of life-or-death to some Americans--for example those with "pre-existing" conditions. [1] Furthermore, and of some interest to the Hacker News community, any step to divorce (American) health care from employment is of great importance to startups (small business), those in the gig economy, and should help to improve the overall "liquidity" of the employment market. If by "useless" you meant that the act did not go nearly far enough, then we would agree. I'm not sure that was due to Obama's corruption but that of his opposition (with ties to the health insurance industry). (As for the hypothesis that American government has been corrupt for decades, I would also tend to agree. Eisenhower warned of it and I'm sure it was going on decades before him.) [1] http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamacare-voices-20170109-story.html http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamac...

djsumdog 9y ago
I did a write up on this: https://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-the-unaffordable-care-act/ https://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-... I use to work in health care. The ACA is hopeless broken, unless you live in one of the lucky states (like Washington) where it's not. For most people, the deductibles are too high. They don't realize this until they need it. Also, in 2017, medical debt is still the number one cause of bankruptcy. That's with government mandated private health care. That's after several years of it. No, it is broken, and the ACA is garbage. I downloaded that thing several times in 2008 during the debates. Did I read it? Of course not. It was 1800+ pages. I guarantee you no congressman or senior did either.

djsumdog 9y ago

I did a write up on this: https://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-the-unaffordable-care-act/ https://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-... I use to work in health care. The ACA is hopeless broken, unless you live in one of the lucky states (like Washington) where it's not. For most people, the deductibles are too high. They don't realize this until they need it. Also, in 2017, medical debt is still the number one cause of bankruptcy. That's with government mandated private health care. That's after several years of it. No, it is broken, and the ACA is garbage. I downloaded that thing several times in 2008 during the debates. Did I read it? Of course not. It was 1800+ pages. I guarantee you no congressman or senior did either.