> it would boost the number of entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Agreed. But this is exactly why it's been slow (read: impossible?) to happen. Big Inc has no interest in seeing the status quo change. High healthcare premiums keeps all but the bravest chained to the system.
Even the ACA never lived up to its own name. Never. We all know this, yet no effort to fix it, adjust it, etc. That says a lot. Actions speaker louder than words.
ACA has accomplished a lot of what it was intended to, despite multiple efforts by some politicians to sabotage it at every turn.
"Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a new report that shows 31 million Americans have health coverage through the Affordable Care Act – a record. The report also shows that there have been reductions in uninsurance rates in every state in the country since the law’s coverage expansions took effect. People served by the health Marketplaces and Medicaid expansion have reached record highs."
Just to clarify, yes it has done sone good. Unfortunately, it's not living up to its name. Affordable it is not. Furthermore, it's not making us any healthier. The healthcare system has been the single largest beneficiary of ACA.
Note: I'm not against a national plan. But the current implementation is a mess.
ACA was designed from the get go to fail and to be hated. Goal was to soften the public up on the idea of single payer as the solution to the problems that the ACA created.
The problem with the plan came when the GOP and Trump went and gutted the penalties for non compliance of the individual mandate. At this point I doubt Biden re-instates it especially with all the hubbub over the vaccine mandate. The optics would be bad bad, especially with the vaccine mandate and the ACA individual mandate disproportionately hurting younger working families.
Agreed. But this is exactly why it's been slow (read: impossible?) to happen. Big Inc has no interest in seeing the status quo change. High healthcare premiums keeps all but the bravest chained to the system.
Even the ACA never lived up to its own name. Never. We all know this, yet no effort to fix it, adjust it, etc. That says a lot. Actions speaker louder than words.
Let them eat ACA.