Anyone around here willing to discuss the facts?
The Affordable Care Act did two major things to "cover" people who were previously not covered:
It expanded Medicaid to cover able-bodied, single, working adults who earned approximately one and a quarter times the poverty income level or less. Tens of millions.
Second, it placed a "tax" penalty on young people if they chose not to purchase health insurance.
Combining these two action, resulted in tens of millions being "covered" who previously were not covered.
Ahem.
Despite Leftist apologists scrambling to find it, there is NO RELIABLE STATISTICAL EVIDENCE TO INDICATE ANY HEALTH BENEFITS WHATSOEVER FOR THESE TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. No fewer deaths, no lower incidence of disease, no nothing.
And that's not surprising. When people really need medical attention, they get it, regardless of whether they have insurance or not. It was supposed that these newly-insured people would start doing things - e.g., getting regular checkups - that would lead to better healthy by identifying potential serious issues that would not have been discovered otherwise, but this HAS NOT HAPPENED.
So now it is claimed by the Left that if we move slightly to what the lawyers call the "status quo ante" (the way things were before), it will result in people dying in the streets. They are quoting numbers like tens of thousands of people. But this is self-serving bullshit. People who really need attention will get it, and the fact that they will not have Medicaid or insurance to fall back on doesn't change the big picture.
MILLIONS WILL LOSE COVERAGE!!!
Bullshit. And who cares? It doesn't matter...except that it saves a lot of people a lot of money.
