The ACA was reckless. As much as I think a Universal healthcare program would be good for the US, there are plenty of quantifiable data sets to show our overall tax rate would need to increase significantly. Other countries pay much higher income tax, or other various taxes where universal healthcare is used successfully. The Obama administration did a disservice to its own program by taking measure to make it look more affordable, only to watch monopolies form and rates skyrocket a mere 3 years into it.
Just plain wrong here. The ACA caused the uninsured rate to drop from 18% of the population to below 9%.
Sorry, I thought I read somewhere that the rates were raising significantly because the providers were not able to continue to offer rates without the excessive government subsidies. I was not aware that all of the news about the rate hikes and health care companies dropping out was actually fake news. I then agree that the new President should leave it completely intact since it is as amazing as you say it is. Shame all of those news sites are claiming such excessive rate hikes. Weird that they would all lie about those but thank you for clarifying.
"excessive government subsidies". The subsidies are exactly what the government agreed to pay. This is no more or less different than having say your company subsidize insurance. There are many many ways to decrease premiums. some of them being: having larger pools of people including both young and older people in them. the largest pool of course, being universal coverage and mandatory enrollment. This gives you the MOST bang for the buck (100% access, lowest per per premium). the collorary effects is, when you have universal coverage, it is a positive improvement in overall public health. Increased preventative care (prenatal, childhood, also immunizations), decrease in catastrophic and emergency care. Having a healthy populace who is safe and can work is a net positive for a society.
Once you have universal coverage, the government can bargain with pharmaceutical companies as well as many other healthcare costs for a lower negotiated rate, same product. Other things of increasing access, are increasing the window people can enroll, including the weekends, and providing support/service to enroll. If you happen to notice, everything that would make healthcare premiums more affordable, and more accessible, the Republicans have either proposed removing, or have already gotten rid of already. Don't you think it's WEIRD that the Republicans want to decrease access and decrease affordability of US healthcare? I mean, why would they do that? They work for us, not the healthcare insurance companies, right?
https://psmag.com/news/health-insurance-senate-money-connections