If Obamacare Worked as Promised, No One Would Need Subsidies

Grokmaster said:
Just sayin'....it did the OPPOSITE of the Black Messiah's Promise, driving American's health costs through the roof, instead of making it more affordable.
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I disagree.

Obama promised Kaiser and Blue Cross that if they backed him, he would force ALL Americans to buy their product, and he would use the federal government to shut down their competitors.

He did exactly that. All medical coverage is in the hands of a half-dozen providers - there is zero competition, zero innovation, and Americans are compelled to buy it.

Obama's Fascist Care does exactly what he promised his backers it would do.
 
Uncensored2008 said:
I disagree.

Obama promised Kaiser and Blue Cross that if they backed him, he would force ALL Americans to buy their product, and he would use the federal government to shut down their competitors.

He did exactly that. All medical coverage is in the hands of a half-dozen providers - there is zero competition, zero innovation, and Americans are compelled to buy it.

Obama's Fascist Care does exactly what he promised his backers it would do.
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It certainly enriched the insurance industry....
 
Obamacare mandated that all marketplace plans had to cover a wide variety of potential claims that were either elective or not covered at all prior to Obamacare.

So, when the marketplace priced all those extra costs into the premiums, guess what happened?

The premiums that would have been necessary to cover those risks eventually made it impossible to hide the fact that Obamacare was a poorly-thought-out boondoggle, so, in 2021 (the absurdly-named American Rescue Plan Act), and again in 2022 (the ironically-named Inflation Reduction Act), the Democrat-dominated Congress slid taxpayer money into two massive bills to keep the charade going for a couple of extra years.

They set the sunset date of December 31, 2025, too, BTW.

Many Democrats wanted universal single-payer, but not enough to pass it, so they had to go with the fucked-up mess that is Obamacare instead.

Not one Republican voted for Barack Hussein Obama's vanity project.

Obamacare passed Congress through two related bills due to procedural complications after the election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate in January 2010, which cost Democrats their filibuster-proof majority.
  • Senate passage: The Senate passed its version (H.R. 3590, originally a minor tax bill that was gutted and replaced with the ACA text) on December 24, 2009, by a vote of 60–39. All 60 votes in favor came from Democrats and the two independents who caucused with them (Bernie Sanders and Joe Lieberman). No Republicans voted for it.
  • House passage: The House initially passed its own version of the ACA on November 7, 2009 (220–215). After the Senate's December passage, the House adopted the Senate's bill on March 21, 2010, by a vote of 219–212. No Republicans voted for it. On the same day, the House also passed a separate reconciliation bill (the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010) by 220–211 to make amendments; this went to the Senate and was signed into law on March 30, 2010.
Barack Hussein Obama signed the main ACA bill into law on March 23, 2010.In total, zero Republicans in either chamber voted for the final ACA legislation that became law. (One Republican, Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana, had voted for the initial House version in November 2009, but he voted against the Senate bill in March 2010.)
 
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