[ok123456]

Yeah. Okay the "death panels" was just people cynically pretending palliative care wasn't a thing.

The only real net beneficiaries of the ACA were the insurance companies. People are compelled to get high deductible insurance. And that's enforced through the tax-code for some reason???

They made a minor concession about denials for preexisting conditions. But, now they just claim everything is 'not medically necessary' instead.

People need healthcare. Not 11,000 pages of more bureaucratic nonsense.

[sky-kedge0749]

The big benefit of the ACA is that anyone can buy real, solid health insurance just like they were ordering something off Amazon, and if they fall into certain categories the government will pay for it. That's huge. I don't know if you had experience buying insurance before the ACA but it was a lot worse, putting it mildly. If the insurance companies made out then it was a "take my money, please!" situation from the perspective of the buyers. People before the ACA paid a lot of money to even get to the point where they had an insurance card in hand and a number to call to argue about benefits, or they did without entirely and envied those who had that.

I still remember Obama having a televised meeting with Republicans from Congress and each of the Republicans had this big stack of papers next to them as a sort of prop to suggest to the folks at home that it was some bureaucratic government takeover. What nonsense. The U.S. government is a complicated thing, so is healthcare, and put it all together and yeah it might take a few pages. Bills like that get passed all the time. And even as careful as the authors were, Republicans were happy to read the law closely and take advantage of every loophole they could, with the Medicaid expansion nonsense and the endless lawsuits on technicalities.