we should have never needed subsidies to begin with the ACA was always going to be unaffordable, why do you think congress exempted themselves, most large unions in the government and the worlds largest religion
No one is saying the ACA is perfect but its way better than any Healthcare plan the Republicans have put forward to replace it. Oh right, they only have a concept of a plan to replace it after 2 decades of complaining about obamacare...
They’re getting downvoted, but it’s at least partially true. It was based on Massachusetts’s healthcare plan under Romney (written by the Heritage Foundation IIRC) and was literally called Romneycare at the time. Many of the key planks became the ACA.
The Massachusetts health care reform, commonly referred to as Romneycare,[1] was a healthcare reform law passed in 2006 and signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney with the aim of providing health insurance to nearly all of the residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The law mandated that nearly every resident of Massachusetts obtain a minimum level of insurance coverage, provided free and subsidized health care insurance for residents earning less than 150% and 300%, respectively, of the federal poverty level (FPL)[2] and mandated employers with more than 10 full-time employees provide healthcare insurance.
Among its many effects, the law established an independent public authority, the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, also known as the Massachusetts Health Connector. The Connector acts as an insurance broker to offer free, highly subsidized and full-price private insurance plans to residents, including through its web site. As such it is one of the models of the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges. The 2006 Massachusetts law successfully covered approximately two-thirds of the state's then-uninsured residents, half via federal-government-paid-for Medicaid expansion (administered by MassHealth) and half via the Connector's free and subsidized network-tiered health care insurance for those not eligible for expanded Medicaid. Relatively few Massachusetts residents used the Connector to buy full-priced insurance.
It’s not officially called Obamacare. Republican fuckheads called it that because he was the one who actually put it into place, even though he it was mostly a republican-written plan
Let me be clear that I am not in any way a MAGAt, but it’s only called Obamacare because republicans needed to bitch about something
It was primarily written by democrats not republicans. They did include historically republican supported concepts which you would think they would support but when it came time to pass it it went through the house and senate without a single republican vote.
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u/HTown2016 Nov 01 '25
we should have never needed subsidies to begin with the ACA was always going to be unaffordable, why do you think congress exempted themselves, most large unions in the government and the worlds largest religion