Ive come to realize something about the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. It is now impossible to ever repeal the Affordable Care Act. It would be profoundly difficult to replace it as well. So many new signups to state insurance plans have taken place, particularly here in California with MediCal, as a result of new provisions and law changes made by the act itself. I think that because so many of the previously uninsured now have access to quality care, it would be political suicide for anybody to simply take all of it away in cold turkey fashion. They would feel it at the polls very quickly, I imagine. The Affordable Care Act has some successes. For one, it has illegalized insurance companies previous practice of turning people away if they had pre-existing conditions. Secondly, it has reached a huge milestone in terms of getting insurance for the uninsured. Could you imagine how many people have had to suffer the pain associated with bad teeth because they were too financially hard-up to afford quality care, let alone quality for their respective states plan, assuming their state even has one? The Affordable Care Acts problem is not its premise, but its method. Forcing employers to make provisions and forcing people to buy health insurance are supposed to be the means by which health insurance is extended to the previously uninsured. Needless to say, the Affordable Care Acts premise is something the majority of Americans can relate to, but how the initative is subsidized remains the focal concern. The Affordable Care Act should be reformed and then refined. My undereducated prognosis: Given the dwindling influence of the liberal progressives who control the Democratic partys establishment and given the resurgence of the Republican partys neoconservatives, it is very likely we will end up with a hybrid of single-payer and free market solutions.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:06:29 +0000
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