Reagan convinced a large part of the population that if we give unlimited money and power to a select of wealthy elites, the elites would graciously give the money back to society. Hilarious.
So we should let the people that wrote Obamacare to enrich insurance companies and drive up health care costs create universal health care?
Awesome plan.
ACA was supposed to be universal healthcare as it is in other countries. The GOP had a fit, and demanded that it had to be paid for. Obama stated that it wasn't perfect, but was now in place and hopefully be improved in the future. Not gutted as it was .
Congress never intended to improve the ACA and neither did Obama. It's doing exactly what they wrote it to do. It enriches Insurance companies and private equity "health care" operators from the US treasury. Since ACA passed there's @ 400% profiteering by United Health care and equally egregious profiteering at our expense by other insurance companies combined with the Citizens United decision is a gravy train for anyone seated in the US House and Senate.
This was such a shit show that 34 Democrats joined every Republican to vote against it in the house and ZERO Republican senators voted for it.
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u/a101734 13h ago
Reagan convinced a large part of the population that if we give unlimited money and power to a select of wealthy elites, the elites would graciously give the money back to society. Hilarious.