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by Gibbon1 2612 days ago
Before the ACA San Francisco implemented Healthy SF which eventually came to cover every family making up to 500% of poverty levels. It was just slowly phased in over about 5 years.

Key thing I've noted about was it was designed to get people covered and to stay that way. That's the opposite of neoliberal ACA which is designed to be annoying and has traps designed to rat fuck people.
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iamnothere 2611 days ago
The media likes to associate the ACA with Obama, who was at least nominally on the left. This conveniently covered up the fact that the ACA was based on Romneycare, a vehicle from the neoliberal "center" designed to prevent truly disruptive reform.

The ACA was a stalling tactic, and it has been rather successful in that role. People are starting to see through the ruse though.

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Gibbon1 2611 days ago
> designed to prevent truly disruptive reform.

That's been my opinion, more or less the ACA was just to set the take by the Insurance/Health care parasites to 17% GDP no more no less.

Healthy SF was really about access and outcomes.

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