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I'll stop "thanking" Obama for the ACA when health premiums go back to something sensible. But honestly I liked everything else about him.
by iforgot22 2y ago
I'll stop "thanking" Obama for the ACA when health premiums go back to something sensible. But honestly I liked everything else about him.
- analog31 2y agoACA was not intended to address costs. It was a compromise to expand access without threatening the insurance industry. A more comprehensive reform had just failed.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoLet's think a lot more widely here: how many things in your life suddently got explosively more expensive over a decade. How many of those do you think would have not surged if it wasn't for [insert single thing here]? It's the same logic people use to suppress minimum wage. But prices keep going up. Almost like that's not as big a factor as we thought.
- iforgot22 2y agoHow many other things in my life suddenly doubled in price within a couple of years? Can't think of any. I know prices of everything tend to double every 10-20 years, but that's what happens when you double the money supply every 10 years.