The Goal of the ACA

[alan1]

The goal of the ACA (AKA Obamacare) was to reduce healthcare costs and provide health insurance to all that didn't have health insurance.
Depending upon who the particular talking head was at the time before implementation, there was somewhere between 40 and 50 million people without health insurance.
So now, we have the ACA, all is good, all 40-50 million previously uninsured people now have health insurance, right? Wrong, 15.6% of people don't have health insurance. Poll: Rate of uninsured Americans drops | Health Care Reform - KHBS Home
How many people are living in the USA? Almost 318 million as of this post. https://www.census.gov/popclock/

So, lets run the the numbers, 317.9 million people times 15.6% without health insurance equals................................


Wait for it...............................

Here it comes........................

Over 49.5 million people without health insurance.

So tell me, where is the success?


Over 49.5 million people still don't have health insurance and the liberals want to call the ACA a success?
If only the unicorns were free, it would fix everything.

 

[Rozman]

It's a success because Obama and the media says it is.
Doesn't make it so!

 

[Rozman]

40 + million who needed it.
5 million who had coverage and got dropped then ended up with worse coverage.
8 million signed up or so they say....

And the Democrats say this is a success....

How do they get away wilth it?

 

[Pop23]

The goal of the ACA (AKA Obamacare) was to reduce healthcare costs and provide health insurance to all that didn't have health insurance.
Depending upon who the particular talking head was at the time before implementation, there was somewhere between 40 and 50 million people without health insurance.
So now, we have the ACA, all is good, all 40-50 million previously uninsured people now have health insurance, right? Wrong, 15.6% of people don't have health insurance. Poll: Rate of uninsured Americans drops | Health Care Reform - KHBS Home
How many people are living in the USA? Almost 318 million as of this post. https://www.census.gov/popclock/

So, lets run the the numbers, 317.9 million people times 15.6% without health insurance equals................................


Wait for it...............................

Here it comes........................

Over 49.5 million people without health insurance.

So tell me, where is the success?


Over 49.5 million people still don't have health insurance and the liberals want to call the ACA a success?
If only the unicorns were free, it would fix everything.

If you joined a club, and that club elected a new president, and that new leader made the club larger, you would say the leader was a success. Right?

He just made the club of the uninsured larger.

Winning!

 

[LoneLaugher]

What high level thinking! This place is way too smart for me.

 

[emilynghiem]

Even if it were successful,
the fact that it depends on depriving law abiding citizens of liberties we had before,
without any due process to prove the crimes committed,
has divided the nation by party and principles.

We don't let Prolife advocates push laws, on the grounds these would "save lives" of unborn and/or "do more good than harm,"
that would sacrifice "free choice" by forcing defendants to go through due process to prove there were mitigating circumstances that led to abortion.

But here, the same Prochoice advocates who forbid those laws
somehow justify banning free choice BEFORE and INSTEAD of any due process AT ALL,
by imposing federal restrictions, forced mandates and penalties, and don't count any liberties as lost.

How is the free choice to pay for health care more compelling to regulate than the free choice of abortion?

Is this NOT a form of "discrimination in policy" if "prochoice" principles and beliefs
only apply to 'people who believe in reproductive freedom' which is not in the Constitution,
but not to 'people who believe in religious freedom"' which IS in the Constitution.

How is this NOT imposing a bias in federal laws that discriminates on the basis of creed,
by penalizing one group's beliefs but not others, because of which belief they agree with?

If we can SUCCEED in addressing this issue, which is long overdue,
maybe something good that can come out of these conflicts over ACA
that will help America in the longrun.

The goal of the ACA (AKA Obamacare) was to reduce healthcare costs and provide health insurance to all that didn't have health insurance.
Depending upon who the particular talking head was at the time before implementation, there was somewhere between 40 and 50 million people without health insurance.
So now, we have the ACA, all is good, all 40-50 million previously uninsured people now have health insurance, right? Wrong, 15.6% of people don't have health insurance. Poll: Rate of uninsured Americans drops | Health Care Reform - KHBS Home
How many people are living in the USA? Almost 318 million as of this post. https://www.census.gov/popclock/

So, lets run the the numbers, 317.9 million people times 15.6% without health insurance equals................................


Wait for it...............................

Here it comes........................

Over 49.5 million people without health insurance.

So tell me, where is the success?


Over 49.5 million people still don't have health insurance and the liberals want to call the ACA a success?
If only the unicorns were free, it would fix everything.

 

[boedicca]

The goal of the ACA was never about insuring people. That was a ruse to dupe gullible people into ceding more control over their lives by the Federal Government...and create yet another flow of "other people's money" for politicians to funnel to their cronies.

 

[dblack]

In my view, the biggest problem is that the goal of ACA was never clear at all. Certainly there was no consensus among those supporting the general call to "do something" about health care. And the insurance and health care lobbies were more than happy to fill that vacuum with their own agenda.

 

[alan1]

The goal of the ACA was never about insuring people. That was a ruse to dupe gullible people into ceding more control over their lives by the Federal Government...and create yet another flow of "other people's money" for politicians to funnel to their cronies.

I should have said, "stated goal".