I wonder when the goon squad will have another go at trashing the ACA? They do seem to be strangely quiet on the issue.
I hope they have forgotten about it personally.
The Feds shot down Iowa's attempt to flagrantly break the law regarding health insurance so that's a win. However the state is now trying to create a plan like the Tennessee Farm Beareu that is grandfathered into the ACA and it likely to be considered a legal option since it's not considered "health insurance." I can't say that I understand why the state wants to create plans that will likely harm their citizens long term by enrolling them in plans without the protections of the ACA's essential benefits.
Because they are not so dense to think that Obamacare only comes with benefits.
Obamacare can be brutal for the non-subsidized, particularly in rural areas and it makes sense that states would try to find away to shield its residents from teh costs of some of the more ridiculous coverage mandates, even if some parts, such as guaranteed issue and no lifetime caps, would be seen as worth the cost by a majority of the residents.
I don't believe that creating poor coverage options as an alternative to the outrageous cost of healthcare in this country is an appropriate solution. It's great if we all want to continue paying $10 for a band-aid at the hospital but not so great and providing sensible healthcare for our citizenry. The ACA was one necessary step needed to set a standard of care for everyone. The next step should be fixing the cost. No one will ever want to address the real problem as long as we keep creating half measures that just cover it up.
THe ACA was not a necessary step, except maybe politically if you really want to break healthcare because you think it will make nationalized healthcare or a relatively free market for health care politically viable.
What we need to have reasonable healthcare costs, (such as a loosening of the stranglehold on supply; loosening regulation to allow innovative, lower cost treatments, even at the risk of a decrease in quality; lower third party payment; incentive alignment for preventative care and generally good health habits) are mostly politically unpopular.
American voters want all the best care a relatively free health care market would provide, they want somebody else to pay for it, and they also want all the regulatory "protections" of a heavily regulated health care market. Obamacare did a few good things, but for every good thing it did, it did as many bad things, basically because the politicians had to continue to give the american people the lies they demand and pretend that voters can actually have what they want.