|
|
|
|
|
|
by geofft
3130 days ago
|
|
|
The ACA was based on a 1989 Republican-backed proposal and on Massachusetts' Republican-backed health care law ("Romneycare"), designed to be a more corporate-friendly version of a single-payer plan that accomplishes many of the same goals. Obama adopted it in order to get bipartisan support, not because he had any impression the individual mandate was good for individuals. Any narrative that the Democrats have health insurers as their patrons and Republicans do not needs to account for facts of history like this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Equity_and_Access_Ref... (The argument that both parties would have loved
the individual mandate, and merely fought over it for political points as a show for voters, is at least consistent with objective history.) |
|
|