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For decades, the left’s entire act has been to claim that they’re looking out for the common people against the selfish plutocrats who would exploit them and bleed them dry, when what leftists are really doing is handing over the common people to the all-encompassing clutches of the government and Democrat donors, who then exploit them and bleed them dry.
One of the reasons why leftists hate President Donald Trump with such volcanic intensity is because he exposes this, and doesn’t hate to call leftists out for it, in ways that they have never been challenged before. On Friday, Trump did this regarding one of the contemporary American left’s proudest achievements: Obamacare.
Speaking in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the president stated plainly what massive numbers of Americans have experienced over the past decade: “The current Unaffordable Care Act, commonly known as Barack Hussein Obamacare, was created to make insurance companies rich.” That’s certainly what has been the result of it, as well as the further impoverishment of Americans who have had to fork over ever larger amounts for ever lower quality healthcare.
Trump continued:
It was bad health care at much too high a cost, and you see now that, the steep increase in premiums — it’s being demanded by the Democrats — It was never any good, Obamacare. It was done for the benefit of insurance companies, which totally control the Democrats.
He warned that trouble could be coming as a result:
That’s why you could have a strike, you know, on January 30. You could have another shutdown, because the Democrats are totally in the hands of — they’re totally controlled by the insurance companies, big wealthy companies. Again, I want the money to go directly to the people so you can buy your own health care, and you’ll get much better health care at a much lower price, and the only losers will be the insurance companies that have gotten rich.
Yes. The biggest failing of Obamacare is that, like every other socialist program, it takes away consumer choice. Under Obamacare, to take one notorious example, catastrophic care no longer exists. The best thing that Trump could do, particularly for younger people, would be to restore the pre-Obamacare status quo to the degree that people can pay for the care plan that they actually need.
The Democrats, however, will be (what else?) fighting tooth and nail against any such common-sense arrangement. With the Orwellian-named Affordable Care Act tax credits set to expire on New Year’s Eve, leftists are banking on a sharp rise in premiums to inspire in Americans a new taste for socialism, and allow for the passage of a three-year extension of Obamacare subsidies.
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40 rounds says
A third of my pay goes to so-called health insurance. Ten years ago it was less than a tenth. Don’t count on politicians fixing this as most lack the courage
࿗Infidel࿘ says
In 2016, when I got a new job and was checking out the healthcare options, I found out how well Obamacare would work if I bothered to sign on w/ it. My employer used Cigna, and one of their plans was Cigna Connect. I checked out a bunch of clinics, and all of them told me that they were fine w/ all Cigna plans, except Cigna Connect. One of them mentioned to me that it was Obamacare, which instantly explained why they were not acceptable
I took one of the other plans, and an HSA account (which wasn’t available to me in the 90s & 00s), and that covered me well for a foot surgery I had in 2019. Obamacare needs to go, and instead, they should explore ways to bring down costs of various treatments. The only legislation that should exist should ensure that cost savings percolate down to patients, rather than pad the stock portfolios of Health Insurance companies
JDow says
In practice, Medicare is not much different. If you want another doctor, a specialist in your problem condition, to treat you, you are out of luck. You get what your plan delivers whether you like it or not. Once you have an unusual problem your level of care might not be what you want.
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