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shipwreckers posted...

Well, in defense of both sides, many promises were made under the ACA that were not realistic at all (e.g. "If you like your current health care, you can keep it" / etc.). The insurance companies were forced to compensate for new mandatory coverage, like pre-existing conditions (so premiums almost universally increased). Meanwhile, more newly-covered people than ever were lining up for actual healthcare (so actual hospital bills almost universally increased). Both of these factors in tandem REDUCED the speed and quality of obtainable coverage almost across-the-board, since the healthcare labor force was already stretched BEFORE the policy changed.

In other words, there isn't really anything "AFFORDABLE" about the Affordable Care Act. The money had to be pulled out of the asses of working-class taxpayers. Therefore, it's understandable how there was some resistance (regardless of who originally thought it up.)

all the more reason that it should have been a single payer system from the beginning instead of trying to meet conservatives halfway with a plan modeled after Romneys

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Lemonheads