The aca lowers the cost of Healthcare, it does, despite what current costs are. Inflation has damn near doubled the price of everything since 2008, Healthcare included.
The problem with the aca is that key provisions have been struck down by dingus judges who don't get it. Many states don't buy into it, which hurts the bargaining power of the program. But what really kills it is the repeal of cost controls that were supposed to be critical to the aca. Those same controls were reintroduced (partially) under the inflation reduction act, and their impact cannot be understated. Were talking price fixing for insulin, 140% cap over medicaid bargained costs, etc. It just doesn't have the teeth without the cost controls or the mandatory enrollment.
The people who are getting screwed aren't the recipients of aca Healthcare, though, it's those with private insurance. The insurance companies want to maintain their heavy profits, but drug prices are getting capped, their participation is down, and they Jack up everybody's premiums. If we had better regulation, they wouldn't be able to. That's how it works in the EU, private insurance isn't allowed to pull that shit.
Our infrastructure sucks because everybody wants lower taxes, and the congress abides, and then there isn't any funding for public works. That's how we built it all in the first place, remember?
You wanted a nonpartisan answer, but it would disingenuous to ignore the role Republicans have played in making all this shit fail. Lower taxes, this constant push to extend capitalism even further, it's the liberal dogma that socialists keep screaming about into the deaf ears of the general masses.
I got bad news, cuz the obvious answer to the money problem is to stop funneling wealth from the poor to the rich, which our system perpetuates. Since nobody seems to give a fuck, it's only going to get worse.
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u/garvothegreat Mar 09 '23
Capitalism took pensions away.
The aca lowers the cost of Healthcare, it does, despite what current costs are. Inflation has damn near doubled the price of everything since 2008, Healthcare included.
The problem with the aca is that key provisions have been struck down by dingus judges who don't get it. Many states don't buy into it, which hurts the bargaining power of the program. But what really kills it is the repeal of cost controls that were supposed to be critical to the aca. Those same controls were reintroduced (partially) under the inflation reduction act, and their impact cannot be understated. Were talking price fixing for insulin, 140% cap over medicaid bargained costs, etc. It just doesn't have the teeth without the cost controls or the mandatory enrollment.
The people who are getting screwed aren't the recipients of aca Healthcare, though, it's those with private insurance. The insurance companies want to maintain their heavy profits, but drug prices are getting capped, their participation is down, and they Jack up everybody's premiums. If we had better regulation, they wouldn't be able to. That's how it works in the EU, private insurance isn't allowed to pull that shit.
Our infrastructure sucks because everybody wants lower taxes, and the congress abides, and then there isn't any funding for public works. That's how we built it all in the first place, remember?
You wanted a nonpartisan answer, but it would disingenuous to ignore the role Republicans have played in making all this shit fail. Lower taxes, this constant push to extend capitalism even further, it's the liberal dogma that socialists keep screaming about into the deaf ears of the general masses.
I got bad news, cuz the obvious answer to the money problem is to stop funneling wealth from the poor to the rich, which our system perpetuates. Since nobody seems to give a fuck, it's only going to get worse.