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Obama encourages Democrats to focus on winning back House, not "tactical differences"
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I never said anything about Trump. Biden did something, which is rare for his type, but it's certainly not enough, and as long as it's not enough people will keep flocking to the right because the right actually does things (bad things, to be clear, but that's irrelevant).
Tbf Obama also did more for the working class than Trump ever did or will. ACA alone covers that. The issue is brainlets getting brainwashed by rightwing propaganda.
ACA was a gift to insurance companies. It was cowritten by the heritage foundation ffs.
It still managed to help a hell of a lot of working class people. It's a net positive in my book.
As a working class person, my rates doubled every year for the first 4 years I was on ACA. When they got to $800 a month I cancelled my insurance and decided to take the tax penalty instead.
That happened to all plans during that time period, not just ACA plans.
But it happened because of ACA.
How do you figure?
The 80/20 rule. Under the ACA, insurance companies are only allowed to pull profits from 20% of the premiums. So they raise the premiums until that 20% is covering the profits they were making before the ACA.
Tell me how many people are getting hurt by republicans cutting it, then cry about "gift to insurance companies" again. The kind of take that only people too privileged to not need it would have.
He had the opportunity to give everyone universal health care and instead he chose to give us the half-baked “solution” that is utterly dependent on republican good will while also driving up health insurance profits, leaving us more reliant on middlemen insurance companies than ever before.
So yeah, people are hurting without it, but don’t pretend like it was some nice gift. It was a token that was tossed our way so we wouldn’t ask for more.
Obama had the opportunity to "give us universal health care"? When?
It was Congress that killed the public option btw.
Both things are true. It was obviously a gift to the insurance industry, but it doesn't mean that it didn't help millions of people.
For a solid chunk of time in Obama’s first term the Dems controlled all branches of government but did not pass any of the progressive legislation that he campaigned on, like universal healthcare.
I acknowledge that it helped millions of people, but that doesn’t mean that the ACA wasn’t a rug pull on the American people as a whole in the long run.
Wasn't Ted Kennedy dying and Joe Leiberman (I) ,who normally caucused with Democrats, went across the aisle and sided with republicans.
Yeah you're right, those people are way better off being required by law to purchase a product from a private company that doubles its rates every year. Who needs a public option?