Obamacare overcharged healthy & young people that needed insurance to help fund the cost of insurance for sick people

[DonGlock26]

Just a little history.

The "Lifeline Program" as it formally known.

Was started under Ronald Reagan in 1985.

WW

Who paid for it?

 

[DonGlock26]

Obama wanted single payer healthcare, just like the clintons before him. Obamacare was a compromise designed to get past republican objections. A compromise you guys have spent a coupe of decades sabotaging at this point, which is why the premiums has been going up so fast.

Should have just gone with single payer to begin with.

What does that have to do with my point? If the gov't starts funding something, then the costs skyrocket.

 

[WorldWatcher]

Who paid for it?

Taxpayers, in the form of the Universal Services Fund Fees placed by the FCC on telecommunications companies.

(No you can say "but it's fee" but not a "tax", which is just funny. It's an embedded tax in your telecommunications bill.)

WW

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Let’s hear the republicans ideas on healthcare.

Get a job, pay for your insurance or have it as part of your employment. Like my parents did, I did, and my kids did.

Can't afford the insurance, work harder or get a better job. The American way.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It is paid with our taxe, what do you think media and Medicare come from? The Obamacare subs?

Try that again. It makes no sense.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Obamacare has wrecked the health care of Americans because it is masked socialism.
It gave coverage to some by raising costs on most other people.

What is the Republican replacement plan?

 

[DonGlock26]

What is the Republican replacement plan?

"Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!"

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115514453574326959

 

[Zincwarrior]

"Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!"

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115514453574326959

So literally no plan. You assholes had TWO DECADES. All you pricks can do is give tax breaks to billionaires. No wonder politicians are abandoning Trump now.

 

[DonGlock26]

So literally no plan. You assholes had TWO DECADES. All you pricks can do is give tax breaks to billionaires. No wonder politicians are abandoning Trump now.

Are you suggesting that the Republicans never tried to end Obamacare?

 

[JoeB131]

Suicidal thoughts is a mental health issue, not a surgical emergency.

Someone at an early age should have taught you how to conjugate a verb.

Most health care isn't a surgical emergency. Ideally, you deal with medical issues before they become emergencies.

 

[JoeB131]

Are you suggesting that the Republicans never tried to end Obamacare?

What you haven't done is offer an alternative.

 

[Crepitus]

What does that have to do with my point? If the gov't starts funding something, then the costs skyrocket.

I dunno what you expect me to say, kid. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

 

[konradv]

By all means explain to us how a sex change operation can save the patient's life.

You’re asking for a friend, right?

 

[IM2]

Obamacare has wrecked the health care of Americans because it is masked socialism.
It gave coverage to some by raising costs on most other people.

Obamacare didn't do jack ---- and people in countries with fully socialized medicine do better than we do. But since you object to socialized medicine, I hope you aren't on Medicare, or that when it's time for you to get Medicare, refuse it.

 

[DonGlock26]

Obamacare didn't do jack

It was a lie.

 

[Couchpotato]

It was a lie.

It drove up insurance costs...

 

[there4eyeM]

Why don't customers form an insurance "Costco" and deal with insurers collectively outside of "government"?

 

[struth]

Why don't customers form an insurance "Costco" and deal with insurers collectively outside of "government"?

Why would they deal with insurers? Why not just deal with healthcare providers?

The answer is they do. There are many healthcare sharing groups out there

 

[Delldude]

Obamacare didn't do jack ---- and people in countries with fully socialized medicine do better than we do.

Promises?

 

[citygator]

Promises?

It’s a very popular program even today. Unlike tariffs and shooting citizens in the streets.