Under-rated fact: Obamacare is brilliant

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There are no guarantees. But if you sell it better than your opponent demonizes it, you win that point. And it depends on the state. Places like Texas have 25% uninsured. Mississippi 22%. In a tight race a pollster might tell you it will help.

There are Republicans governors who have vowed never to allow Obama's Affordable Healthcare Act to be instituted in their states. Much like Arizona for years had not allowed Medicare to dig its heels into their state - until hospitals there found it impossible to continue operating as late as 1972.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Yeah, the hospitals will lobby for it and are doing so. They want to get paid. It won't just be poor people asking. In Florida, where the governor just said he won't take the money, the uninsured rate is 21%. One of the worst. The governor is just one part of the process and the state legislature is saying they'll think about it.

In addition to the benefit of getting $9 for every $1 you spend, there is the economic side-effect. People going to see doctors for preventative care who were not doing so previously. That's jobs, taxes, etc. Billions of dollars worth of activity. States like that too. Plus more compensated care = lower insurance premiums, or at least slower growth. Always nice to tell voters that you helped out their wallets.

Actually, the ACA is brilliant. It has delivered the entire health care system into private hands in the least competitive manner possible. I am sure the far right types only pretended to object to this abomination.

ruveyn

The pro-corporate lick-spittles and running dogs have done a masterful job of pretending to curse Obama Care. Obama Care will eventually deliver the medical care system into the hands of irresponsible subsidized corporate providers of both care and insurance. Think of it as Socialized Medicine From Hell. It has all of the evil aspects of a government monopoly and virtually non of the virtues of privately provided services and goods. Adam Smith must be whirling in his grave at 2400 rpm.

Obama has deceived the entire nation. What a con man he is. And he will probably get another 4 years to pluck us as naked as j-birds.

ruveyn

And if they get their actuarial math wrong for enough customers, people get refunded. That's another good thing.