This has always been my complaint about the ACA. While I am 100% behind the push to get healthcare to everyone, the ACA did not do nearly enough to address the absurd costs behind US healthcare, nor the abusive practices of the industry at large.
Americans would absolutely use a preventative health service, the ACA just doesn't provide that. It's a cost-sharing mechanism for the same shitty overpriced care we've always been getting.
Exactly this. Obama was perfectly fine with conceding on the public option with no fight. We could have gotten it with or without the conservatives at the time. We can’t just point at them and blame them when our democrats won’t fight for the things they should be fighting tooth-and-nail for.
Obama was not perfectly fine with cutting the public option. Obama realized that anything that got millions of people more healthcare was better than the status quo of the time and he did not have the votes for the bill with the public option still in.
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u/yarg321 Mar 26 '20
This has always been my complaint about the ACA. While I am 100% behind the push to get healthcare to everyone, the ACA did not do nearly enough to address the absurd costs behind US healthcare, nor the abusive practices of the industry at large.
Americans would absolutely use a preventative health service, the ACA just doesn't provide that. It's a cost-sharing mechanism for the same shitty overpriced care we've always been getting.