It is not the President's job to prepare and sell a major overhaul to the nation's health insurance paradigms. That is for Congress to do.
ACA, also known as "Obamacare" mocks the very idea of insurance by demanding that the insurers cover not RISKS, but KNOWN LOSSES, without charging those who will demand excess costs to pay more. It mocks the free market by demanding that policies include coverages that middle-class, responsible people "self-insure," such as birth control.
The fact is that the American People are too stupid to understand the issues, and any time someone tries to start a coherent discussion, the Democrats demagogue the issue, mainly screaming, WHAT ABOUT PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS?????!!!!! Regardless of who does what, pre-existing conditions will be covered, probably with a Federal government backstop.
The vast majority of Americans are covered to a reasonable extent, and experience a bit of financial pain from time to time, which is entirely appropriate. The whole discussion is about people on the margins - some of whom are there on purpose and some due to conditions for which they bear no fault. The Republicans want to give free markets a try (interstate competition, tort reform), Democrats want socialized medicine, which was the purpose of Obamacare - make a system so awful that it would explode and the People would demand Single Payer.
It is impossible to discuss health care with this level of stupid. Health care should not be subjected to "profit and loss" thinking of the capitalistic health care system, which focuses on profit over all else. Americans pay the highest dollars, for the worst outcomes in both health care and education because these are two areas where government really can do it better and cheaper, for any number of reasons, the principle among them being, the genuinely sick people and poor people are not profitable, so the incentive is to keep sick people, and those who aren't easy to teach, out of the system, as they drain resources offer little return on the investment.
Education and healthcare, when done well, are not profitable in the short term, and Republicans are all about profit and loss, and short term gains. Americans have become obese and unhealthy in myriad ways, and worrying about getting sick is a national obsession. The bald fact is we're all going to get older, frailer, sicker, and then we're going to die.
The argument I hear constantly on this forum in regards to health care is that nobody needs health care in their twenties or thirties, or at least they shouldn't need it. But that completely ignores women because women need health care in their child bearing years more than at any other time in their lives, except old age. Of course the men on the forum don't understand why they should have to contribute to the health care of women at all. Women have babies, they should pay higher premiums.
The whole point of living in a society is to share the costs of living in a first world country, and one of those costs is first world health care for your entire nation, not just your tribe. Millions of Americans are forced to contribute for a large, expensive military, to protect American corporate interests around the world. These working people derive no benefit from bases in the Middle East, while the owners of American oil refineries there have all of the protections the government's money can buy, while paying nothing for it.
And yet Trump would have your believe that NATO is leaching off the American taxpayers. There is no NATO or SEATO provision that requires American military bases in these regions. Americans WANTED to keep bases their to protect their interests, not the other way around.
Americans stationed troops in Europe to keep Stalin from continuing to move West, and take all of Germany, in addition to Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, once known as Iron Curtain Countries. SEATO similar keep communism from spreading throughout Asia, but lead directly to the Korean War, the Viet Nam War, Cambodia, and US support of various right wing dictatorships in the Phillipines, and Central and South America, which continues to this day.
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