Yet another reason for medical care to have nothing to do with your employer … thank Obama for sealing that deal with the ACA / Big Insurance Company Handout. Good luck severing the connection.
If you researched the negotiations that led to the ACA, you would see that the public option was favored by Obama, but had to be nixed to get a few holdout senators on board. You can thank the Obama admin for at least getting rid of pre existing conditions clauses and for out of pocket maximums, which was more progress that anyone has made before or after.
This article presents your viewpoint along with quite a few others which mostly point toward Obama’s ineffectiveness and lack of effort toward accomplishing this while having a clear Democrat majority in both houses.
No surprise though as Obama era is not the only failure to move toward single payer … look at what California managed to accomplish with a vast majority of liberal Democrats a couple months ago …
Single payer on a state level is not tenable, so it is no surprise that it fails on the state level. It is simply numbers since states cannot prevent people from people who need healthcare moving in and people who help pay for it moving out.
Obama’s senate majority was not really a majority. Leiberman was basically yesteryear’s Manchin, and maybe there was a couple others, but either way, having 50 or 51 or 52 Democrats is not a clear path to victory that would make it reasonable to blame the Obama admin for anything.
Best way I can judge their performance/intentions is to note that ACA resulted in more healthcare for more people than any other legislation in recent decades.
Agree. Creating corporate sovereignty for insurance companies just re-enforces government interference in a free economy. As a result of the interference, health providers have continuously raised their prices far beyond what anybody would pay in a free market. If nobody had insurance, what do you suppose would happen to health care costs? Answer: They would adjust to what the market will bear.
