Just an honest assessment here, I think Obamacare got more people technically insured but it turned the healthcare for everyone that was already insured on its head and didn't actually do anything to lower costs or improve healthcare outcomes. You have the previously uninsurable on insurance now that they often cannot afford or use. You have people who were happy with their healthcare before paying ridiculous premiums, having the plans they liked cancelled, losing their doctors, and going to the doctor even less than before.  Now the chickens are coming home to roost because insuring a bunch of people with preexisting conditions is not profitable at all so the insurance companies are dropping like flies. I reside in Arizona now (still a homer for my Jags), but on the marketplace, we have ONE provider left and the cost for a silver plan is more than my mortgage. That is a joke. 

 

The only people who come out ahead on this are the people not working at all, totally indigent, and they get expanded Medicaid in many states or a huge subsidy. Everyone else got messed over really badly.

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