Vrede too wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:29 am
GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 12:57 am
Vrede too wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 12:16 am
TV news: Americans without health insurance has hit a record low of 7.7%. Thank you, Barack and Joe!
Really? Are you sure?
That's incredible!
You made me check.
New HHS Report Shows National Uninsured Rate Reached All-Time Low in 2023 After Record-Breaking ACA Enrollment Period
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a new report showing that the national uninsured rate reached an all-time low of 7.7 percent in early 2023. Approximately 6.3 million people have now gained coverage since 2020, coinciding with the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration in January 2021. This is the first report on the uninsured rate since the historic ACA Open Enrollment period that ended this past January. The success of that enrollment period, during which a record-breaking 16 million Americans enrolled in coverage through HealthCare.gov or state websites, helped the nation’s uninsured rate reach a historic low, breaking last year’s record....
“The Inflation Reduction Act has played a critical role in helping more Americans afford coverage through the Affordable Care Act. And this year, the nation's uninsured rate reached an all-time low, even breaking last year's record," said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. "HHS will continue to do everything we can to help Americans keep or get coverage and have access to quality, affordable health care.” ...
I did notice lots of ACA advertising, I think more than TRE45QN was doing.
billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 3:16 am
25,564,000 without insurance is what happens when your dem-lite president hawks a Heritage Society bs plan that only existed because the right needed smoke and mirrors to defeat the Single Payer Hillary was pushing.
Hillary had pushed single payer 16 years earlier, but by 2010 she was out of the Senate and did not play any role in drafting the ACA. During the 2008 campaign Hillary and Barack's chief difference was in whether there would be an individual mandate or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordabl ... E2%80%9310
I think we all agree that the ACA is deeply flawed, but until we have single payer I can still celebrate the ACA's victory and Joe's management in making the uninsured rate better than it's ever been.
The aca, just like employer insurance satisfies enough I, Me, Mine people who soon forget the plight of others and further delays attempts to implement coverage for all.
What we call the aca and fox call Obama care was created by the Heritage (group / foundation / assholes / whatevers) as Bob Dole's response to what we called Single Payer and fox called Hillary- (she's not the president)-Care. It was later co-opted by mittens as Romneycare and finally by Obama as the aca.
All in all, it continues to be great at transferring wealth to the insurance companies at a time when 30% guaranteed profits on top of overhead filled with waste and fraud are disastrous to the middle class, and completely unnecessary. Medicare part D with its 2 or 3 percent overhead could provide health-care to everyone at half the cost. If all income paid into the system, the middle class could get a huge tax break on payroll taxes which now stand at 15% for all but the rich, who pay close to zero.
Obama gave us a republican plan and made it even harder to push a plan for all.
The great orator not trying to sell SP is proof enough to me that he never intended to try.
Were people shown that their Payroll taxes could be cut in half?
Were plans from other countries showing superior care at less cost described?
No effort was made to sell it to the right. Instead the left bought into the notion that he couldn't do 2 things at once.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”