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I have seen sicko...
Calling ACA an improvement is an insult though.
Sure it made a few people get access but rest of population pays more for less now and still get claims denied.
These limp dick positions just provides political cover for poor policy.
If you want to criticize me for my position on the issue, my position is that we should have universal healthcare at least on a par with the other developed countries.
My post was me griping about how pretty much impossible it has been to do anything about health care in this country for decades, and even the little we've gained is still under threat of being taken away. It took decades to get even the protections of the ACA passed (not allowing them to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions being IMO the most important one, which IS an improvement that has saved a lot of suffering and my life, among others, followed by expansion of Medicaid, which has also saved lives).
So yes, I did say things were even worse before the ACA and they were. That's a fact, whether you want to admit it or not. If they repeal the ACA, it will cause more suffering and death. That's a fact.
That's all fair but defending a failed project after is failed is backwards looking.
ACA needs to be analyy and the reforms can't repeat the same mistakes.
My position is that the justification how it was the best we gonna get, is how we got here.
I think "how we got here" is more because of the massive and powerful opposition to health care reform by the Powers That Be, not because of regular people being grateful that we made a small amount of progress in spite of them.
Then why white wash aca as anything but a 15 year set back?