re: #145 darthstar

A lot of ignorant right wingers would be outraged. They’ve been fed the lie for nearly a decade that Obamacare is evil, destroying the nation, and that it’s destroying health care as we know it.

What all these people seem to ignore or forget is that health care insurance as we knew it was awful. It allowed insurers to refuse coverage to people with preexisting conditions, could provide vaporware coverage that wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on, all to claim that the person was covered, and when it was needed, wouldn’t pay anywhere near what was needed (catastrophic coverage with minimum reimbursements). No preventative care coverage. Minimal prenatal coverage. Minimal mental health coverage. Minimal drug addiction coverage.

You know, all the coverages that people take for granted these days, and find incredibly useful - and cost effective as compared to waiting to go to an ER for complications from diseases that could have been picked up by a preventative care visit.

Hospitals aren’t shuttering from bankruptcies at the same rate as pre ACA, because they’ve stabilized their indigent care costs (there’s fewer people who don’t have coverage of some form).

So, yeah, some people will bitch at the cost of premiums being high - but that was always the case. Premiums were always higher in the individual market, and now they’re still high but there are subsidies for those who meet financial levels.

Oh, but people will bitch that they wont take Obamacare coverage plans and get stuck with a penalty at tax time - as though their actions are not without costs to everyone else (who actually pays when indigent care hits the hospital - everyone else who is insured or pays those bills).

The amount of ignorance on the right is staggering, but the sheer lies and dumbassery of the GOP to turn against the ACA because Obama enacted it is galling, particularly since the individual mandate was the GOP hatched idea courtesy of Heritage (and Romney Care).

Change the name, and everyone would be fine with it. The GOP decided to stick it with the name Obamacare, and it’s evil.

Ask anyone whether they like the actual components of Obamacare, and you get significant levels of approval and few changes, and strong opposition to repeal.

That’s what the GOP has done - actively undermined a successful program and now seek its repeal to satisfy their craven urge to destroy Obama’s legacy. They want to roll back the clock. The only question is how far back they want to go - 1990, 1890, or 1790.