Quote:The ACA is garbage legislation and the 20% premium spikes coming for 2015 show why, nothing they did will bend the cost curve down. The ACA has one intention, make our system so bad that Universal coverage looks attractive by comparison. Free market advocates know that we are going the wrong way and it's only going to get worse as our government takes over more and more of the industry.

 

 

You still didn't address my main point: that the US does not have the best health care system in the world.  I think your "sabotage" theory is way off base, and is dead wrong.  The ACA is an attempt to regulate an industry with runaway costs that every single American relies on for their lives.

 

Perhaps there is more sensible legislation, but at least the ACA is an attempt to address a very real problem:  the elimination of the American middle class due to catastrophic health care costs.  As for "free market", what could be more "free market" than listing all possible choices and letting the public decide - like the ACA is doing with their exchanges.

 

The government hasn't taken over the industry any more than the NHTSA has taken over the auto industry.  They've set reasonable standards and regulations - like eliminating the $5000 deductible garbage plans you so eloquently decried a few pages back.

 

If rising health care costs didn't threaten to ruin our country, this legislation would be unnecessary.  But they are, and it finally reached a point where our politicians couldn't just sweep them under the rug anymore.  One party is still trying, which is a shame, because the ACA is their idea - Massachussett's system writ large.  So tweak it, because the public knows that if it's repealed, it will not be replaced with a better idea.

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