j.r. leonard

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

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.

Widen-Bennett was so much better. Converted employer insurance into wage increases and put everyone in the exchanges. But, ppl really dislike change and it would have been too disruptive.

I love that idea if only for the fact it makes health insurance portable

Employer based HC is a scourge, but I have no idea how we root it out.

I wish every American could go to France as an uninsured person and realize how fucked our system is. Fucked up my foot and ankle, panicked about lack of HC, it was painless and cheap.

Totally. Unfortunately I think many of the healthcare opponents haven’t the slightest curiosity about how other countries have healthcare built right into their societies as a given.

America has the worst HC system in the developed world and the worst system for infrastructure development. Same reason, regulate too little where you need it and too much where you don’t.