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> I view the ACA as guaranteeing private health insurance companies a future instead of granting them the death penalty like the country needs. It was a step i
by wsatb 4y ago
> I view the ACA as guaranteeing private health insurance companies a future instead of granting them the death penalty like the country needs.
It was a step in the right direction at the time. We’ve done nothing to improve upon it since then because one side has spent the last decade trying to destroy it and the other seems mostly ok with our system as it stands.
- DangitBobby 4y agoI don't know if it was a step in the right direction. It helped people in a very real way, my family included. But that was maybe the only shot we will have for the foreseeable future to unfuck our healthcare system. Who knows when the political will to really shake things up in healthcare will come back.
- wsatb 4y agoIf there's one thing I've learned about American politics in my adult life, it's that large changes like "unfucking" our healthcare system do not happen over night. It takes incremental changes over many years, perhaps decades. That definitely wasn't going to happen in 2010, and shouldn't have. We can't just destroy the private health care system tomorrow, it would have massive economic implications. It wasn't the only shot, we just need more politicians that want that change and are willing to not be so stubborn to try to do it fast.
- DangitBobby 4y agoI am not asking for it to happen over night, that's silly. What I'm asking for is effective plans that don't just further enrich politicians' private healthcare buds, executed when the time is right. Medicare for All would have worked and would be mostly implemented by now. Instead we still have an expensive trash heap. Not getting rid of an incredibly wasteful system because it negatively impacts the economic status of the people it unfortunately employs isn't even conservative thinking, especially when it's such a huge drain on the economy. In this case it even kills people. Why are we letting them hold everyone hostage? Why are their jobs more important than having affordable or quality care for the entire country? It's not a fucking jobs program! It's healthcare!