>>1491472>government can't do anything>implying every other first-world country hasn't solved the healthcare problem decades agoAnd yes, I agree, Obamacare is ass.
>critics of the bill are on the record stating that it would cause the American healthcare market to pratically implode It was already in the process of imploding. The ACA just shifted the places of some of the winners and losers.
>Fucking regulations dude.Every market needs regulatory guidance. Obviously our system as it was was garbage, for a lot of reasons. I guess you're suggesting a free-market-focused overhaul? That might have merit, but I've seen zero (0) politicians in the Republican party propose such an idea, and they've had a decade to devise one. I can only assume it is not forthcoming.
>There are plenty of legitimate reasons to be horrified with the last administration.Absolutely, but the attempt to repeal Obamacare without proposing a single suitable idea to fundamentally change our healthcare system is a politics of spite. It's all about sticking it to the other guy, not solving our country's problems.
>Know how the law works?Repealing it with no alternative only serves to hurt the people the law did manage to benefit. Some of its provisions, like forcing coverage for pre-existing conditions and extending the time young adults can stay on their parents' insurance, are now politically untouchable due to their popularity. The law is already crippled long-term since the individual mandate is neutered -- it was BS anyway; the whole law is janky social engineering -- but trying to destroy it while keeping the old system is both impossible, due to the aforementioned popular elements that won't be going away, and regressive, since you're just throwing off the poor people who the law DID manage to help while doing nothing to reform the awful system that has winners and losers. (And with the absurd prices that keep skyrocketing, soon it's going to be all losers except the wealthy.)
