Before the ACA, I didn’t have medical coverage at ALL.
The health care insurance companies literally created a shared database of blacklist victims who they denied health care to. It was at mib.com, which is now a completely different site.
In retrospect I don’t believe for a second that he had any intention of doing much of anything. Just empty campaign lies.
We literally got everything Obama campaigned on in health care except the public option. This is what Obama promised you. If you say he promised something else, that’s your lie, not his.
https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_health_care_reform_proposal.pdf
No one I know who voted for Obama had any serious expectation that we were getting Single Payer.
Because that was never his proposal.
https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_health_care_reform_proposal.pdf
We elected Obama with the hope for single payer healthcare and received Romney Care in a rebrand effort called the ACA.
Dude if you didn’t read Obama’s 2008 campaign proposal for health care reform that’s on you. The only thing we didn’t get was the public option, thanks to Joe Lieberman.
https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_campaign_position_on_health_care.pdf
https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_health_care_reform_proposal.pdf
Democrats passed ACA
So they got healthcare for tens of millions of people. That’s fantastic. I used it for awhile myself.
God our government is so fucking useless for anything that might actually help people.
More specifically: gop.gov
Not a flop at all. I used ACA for several years and was extremely glad to have it.