I’ve been pessimistic ever since 2010 when we lost the house after passing the affordable care act. We got punished for improving people’s lives.
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The major cost drivers in American HC is not from quality or number of ppl covered, it’s things like market concentration, lack of pricing regulation, and regulations designed to limit the supply of health care.
I mostly agree this. Which is why it’s weird to take a milquetoast set of reforms like the ACA and make it the arbiter of who is and isn’t a good person
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For the 900’th time “milquetoast” was the best we could get at the time. It was ACA or nothing. We couldn’t get a public option and we couldn’t get single payer. There was opposition that could not be politically overcome.
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Most ppl who opposed the ACA opposes the Medicaid expansion. Also, the exchanges worked at making things cheaper, and yet we won’t expand the exchanges, and I think that a public option would hold prices down even further.
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If the voters wanted a public option they certianly are not electing the right people to get one.
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