mark medicus wrote:
the ACA is a shell game that was not fully implemented until after the 2016 elections
It's STILL not fully implemented mark... If you paid ANY attention to ANYONE other than the detractors, you would know that it was initiated as a first-step. The ACA was NEVER presented as a complete system. The Democrats that passed the law made that VERY clear. It was ALWAYS considered by it's champions as a "first step" on a long road.
mark medicus wrote:
as a democrat, this is a devastating law that affects american freedoms as well as reasonable healthcare cost..
As someone who is NOT a Democrat, I completely disagree.
mark medicus wrote:
the ACA, does not reduce cost
Actually, it has. I think you're the one being fooled by a shell game. It's a game played by detractors that point to the increases in healthcare costs since 2012 and hope that people like you won't have the intellect to the consider any factors like inflation and the fact that healthcare costs have been rising for decades before the ACA was even conceived OR the fact that the rate of cost increases have actually slowed down significantly since the ACA was implemented.
What you're doing here mark, is calling the brakes a failure the second after applying them because they failed to bring your car from 80 mph to a complete stop
mark medicus wrote:
and it's goal was a single payer system.
That's a blatant lie. While some people might think of the ACA as a stepping to single-payer, the design of the ACA itself is nothing like it. The ACA is market-driven. Single-payer is not. The two options could not be any further apart. The closest the ACA ever came was the proposed public option which was never passed into law. Many advocates of single-payer support the ACA because they see it as the next-best thing, not necessarily as a step toward it.
What's interesting is how the Clown President and the GOP have inadvertently driven the demand for single-payer. If they had come aboard with the ACA we could have been much further down the road of improving it through market economics. But instead they chose to sabotage it on every possible turn, proving to the American people that we might not actually be capable of building a market-driven healthcare system that can meet the needs of the American people. So, naturally, the demand for single-payer is escalating.
mark medicus wrote:
Remember, if OBAMA care is so great, then why is Congress exempt, the aids to the Congressman receive subsides, and if everybody is to have insurance, then why do we need charity hospitals, the VA hospitals, medicare or medicaid...think about it!!!
All of those things existed BEFORE Obamacare... Maybe YOU need to do some thinking. LOL