Quote:That's basically what happens in Australia it works pretty well. A lot of people now are ditching their private health due to it being poor value compared to the public system. Competition is good eh...

I don't think that the public market should be allowed to undercut the private market. To compete, yes, but not to undermine. I actually like Obamacare's income-based subsidies to make healthcare more affordable, and I don't mind paying taxes towards subsidies. What I hate is how it was implemented with a heavy hand, penalties (!) for people who don't have insurance, and what appears to have been a wink-nudge agreement that the big insurers could bail as soon as Obama left office.

 

Basically, in principle I like the ACA, but it was clearly a rushed, half-aced plan designed to pass Congress by a hair, not something designed to be a long-term solution.

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