ACP45 wrote:
Lone, don't make this a partisan issue. It is a problem for both parties. The ACA made a lot of money for the insurance, hospital, and pharmaceutical industries. Their lobbyists help write the bill. Yes, it may have helped some people who had pre-existing conditions, but it did nothing to reduce the cost of healthcare for everyone. That would have cut the flow of campaign contributions from the healthcare industry to both sides of the isle.
Reducing the cost of healthcare starts with reducing the cost of drugs and care, and insurance regulation in terms of their administration costs.
And by the way, the year before the ACA started my wife's Kaiser cost $950 a month plus copays, the first year of Obamacare it was $550mo, and went down every year until 2016 which was $350mo. 2017 went up to $900mo, 2018 $950mo, still $950mo. That is because insurance companies raised their rates because they could and nobody was going to stop them.