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I 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 m

I 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 ago
The 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.