More Obamacare fuckups

[Thondalar]

Glad you asked! And the answer is that it does a lot!
1) Creates health insurance exchanges

Why did we need the ACA to do that? It would have already happened on it's own if not for the previous system of government-muddled healthcare.

2) Subsidizes insurance for the poor who make too much to be on medicaid/medicare

If there was a gap in Medicaid coverage I'm sure we could have solved that by overhauling Medicaid, not introducing another thousand pages of idiotic bureaucracy.

3) Makes it possible to get coverage with a pre-existing condition

Why is this a good thing? If you bring a car into a dealership to trade, and it has a blown engine, will they give you full value for it? Whether you like it or not, the fact is Insurance Companies are businesses. They exist to make money (which, by the way, has some really stupid side-effects, like giving people jobs and driving economies). In order to make up for the fact that they're going to lose a shit ton of money on people with pre-existing conditions, they're going to have to raise the rates on the rest of us.

I'm sure it does more, those are just three things it does that a majority of republicans like.

Oh, they also like the employer mandate. The used to like the individual mandate too, but now they don't.

The individual mandate proposed by the Heritage Foundation was ONLY for catastrophic coverage, and even that wasn't readily accepted by the Republican rank-and-file.

Could be that people like it!

Nobody I know.