If memory serves, the ACA was more stable when proposed but so much bickering and compromising with Congress made it the clusterfuck it is today. What "Obamacare" is today is most likely a heavily edited and unbalanced version of what it was intended to be.
Actually congress has passed everything the ACA has asked for. Sure they *** about it, but they still FULLY fund it.
No, the ACA is the clusterfuck today that everyone said it would turn out to be years ago.
Asura.Floppyseconds said:
»The biggest blunder of the ACA was having it watered down by an angry republican caucus. Apparently modeling it after the ideas of Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney just angers them because someone else thought of it. Even the Heritage Foundation supported an individual mandate too.
16 million people now have insurance. Why should these people have been left out in the cold?
The ACA should have never passed, it was hated by the majority of the American people. But the Democrat held house, senate, and President didn't care. It is still unpopular with the majority, you know that thing you guys are always going on about and use to justify pretty much everything else.
How many of those 16 million people are now on medicare that could have been expanded without the horrible ACA law? 10-12 million? Where are the 30-40 million people that Obama said would be jumping at this
huge opportunity to have health insurance and be able to pay for this horrible law?
Should those people be left out in the cold? They never was before the ACA? Why even bring this up? The only thing that has changed is the working class is now paying more for Health insurance the previously had, the Health Insurance of all the extra medicare recipients, the subsidies that the ACA gives out, and deductibles are now higher than ever and are about to increase exponentially next years.
I'm sure it is all the Republicans fault though. They are still FULLY funding this monstrosity after all!