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OMG it was truly paradise before the ACA. That is sarcasm if you can't tell. As someone that used the open market plans before the ACA, it basically changed n
by AtlasBarfed 2y ago
OMG it was truly paradise before the ACA.
That is sarcasm if you can't tell.
As someone that used the open market plans before the ACA, it basically changed nothing, added subsidies, and removed the lifetime limits, at least from my perspective.
But this is all pointless accounting bullshit, we simply need a medicare-for-all plan.
- jonhohle 2y agoI was on employee plans until recently. I knew I would eventually need private health insurance and watched it for 5-10 years, during which ACA took over. For most, premiums rose and coverage fell. Maybe that would have happened regardless, but that wasn’t the ACA promise. Prior to ACA, growth of per capita health care costs were slowing.[0] 0 - https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spending-healthcare-changed-time/#Average%20annual%20expenditures%20growth%20rate%20for%20select%20service%20types,%201970-2022 https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoThe ACA was a disappointment, don't get me wrong. It should have been medicare for all but... Fucking Joe Lieberman. Granted, whenever democrats are in power, they rotate the "bad guy" to give in to the corporate demands and side with the Republicans, but Joe Lieberman was the reason we got a washed out reformed healthcare. Sure it could have been some other democrat senator turncoat, but he wasn't being the surreptitious underminer while the Republicans did the public PR, that a-hole was front and center hollowing out the ACA. Joe Lieberman probably killed hundreds of thousands of Americans as a result. Maybe a million. Maybe more.