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Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination
Whether or not people agree with Obamacare, I think it's important because it directed the national conversation to something that nobody wanted to deal with. The Affordable Care Act will undoubtedly get tweaked and modified as new presidents come in and we learn what works and what doesn't. I look at the current version as a kind of rudimentary foundation.
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It's disappointing to me that the pro-Obama spin on his biggest piece of legislation starts with "whether or not you agree with it..." Such a weak administration.
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Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination
See, I thought Obama's legal team made a very compelling case for requiring people to purchase health care because it's a market you will enter, regardless of desire to.
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I don't think that's an entirely fair assumption. There are people who have chosen a lifestyle that involves avoiding entering the health care system for example. And it's also unfair to equate not having health insurance with being poised to freeload off the system. What if you are wealthy and just don't want to take the -EV gamble that all insurance purchases are and pay out of pocket if anything goes wrong?
Our health care system is rather obviously completely fucked up. I don't understand it or Obamacare enough to really know how things could be improved. I like some of
Steve Forbes' ideas on health care but I'm not even sure that he understands how the system could be fixed.