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Wounded Bear

(63,857 posts) Tue Dec 9, 2025, 03:20 PM Dec 9

Remember folks, the ACA is at its heart a Republican plan dreamed up at the Heritage Foundation... [View all]

It was modeled in Massachusetts and then taken and adapted by the Obama administration and the Congress into what we have now.

Subsidies were expanded during Covid and that is what the fight is about now.

When it passed it was a big, fat, wet kiss to the Insurance companies. It really needed a public option/Medicare for all option that was killed by a DINO.

Focus.

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Remember folks, the ACA is at its heart a Republican plan dreamed up at the Heritage Foundation... [View all] Wounded Bear Dec 9 OP

And D's used to be R's... lame54 Dec 9 #1

Back when "they" attempted to repeal it, we should have .. pat_k Dec 9 #2

Just heard on MS-NOW that Ms Crockett will run on Medicare for All...nt Wounded Bear Dec 9 #3

Greater good, my ass. I'd probably be dead by now if we were still demanding single-payer or nothing. W_HAMILTON Dec 9 #7

Who said single payer or nothing? pat_k Dec 9 #9

The ACA put minimums on what insurance companies have to spend on care EdmondDantes_ Dec 9 #4

I disagree. It further solidifies insurance as the mode of healthcare. Intractable Dec 9 #8

That is exactly what I pay, too. BigmanPigman Dec 9 #10

+1 leftstreet Dec 9 #11

It could have been a decent start leftstreet Dec 9 #5

It's also called progress -- and it's much better than what we had before. W_HAMILTON Dec 9 #6