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The ACA was very much a compromise that Republicans wanted over a better healthcare bill supported by the Democrats. It's basically a big cash present to insura
by thrance 1y ago
The ACA was very much a compromise that Republicans wanted over a better healthcare bill supported by the Democrats. It's basically a big cash present to insurance companies, who were free to jack up premiums and get paid by the Governement for it. Now that's gone, and the jacked up prices are now falling into the regular folk.
The GOP has zero plans to improve healthcare in this country, their messaging focuses on self-medication through their four magical products: raw milk, methylene blue, horse dewormer and Hydroxychloroquine. They are very much anti-vaccines and anti-science, in that they defeunded most health research and prefer an holistic/esoteric understanding of medicine to it.
Ultimately, I think this is good. The GOP is completely uninterested/unable of running this country. The sooner people realize this, the sooner we can be rid of them.
- NoGravitas 1y agoThe crazy thing is that the ACA actually is bad -- it's Romneycare, a giveaway to the private health insurance industry thought up by a conservative think tank -- but the Democrats get to take the blame for it being actually bad, and Republicans get to point at it being actually bad even though any changes they would make are actually worse. It was an act of long-term political suicide by the Democrats under the Obama administration, which they doubled down on by ratfucking Bernie twice.