Wasserman Schultz Resigns

I would say that what you stated above did not exactly help me look at or ever consider being a Republican. That did not sit well with me or plenty of other reasonably minded Americans.

 

Imagine you have an employee with attendance problems. So you fire him/her and hire a new employee who looks much more promising. Then, their first week, they say "OK, I'm gonna get to work first thing after my extended vacation."

Congress didn't exactly have a reputation for being highly productive before the Tea Party. Then the TP came along and managed to do even less. The only way they could have done worse would have been if they just started repealing stuff that was already on the books and everyone wanted. You know...like they tried to do with Obamacare.

 

My health care contributions, co-pays, and fees have absolutely skyrocketed since the "Affordable" Care Act went into effect. Turns out that it's not so affordable, and I'm still waiting for the $2,500 per year reduction in premiums that was promised to me by Obama and his health care hucksters.

I go to the VA for everything now, the only reason I keep private insurance is for my wife and children.

 

Seems to be a mixed bag. I had no change to my insurance at all. We, as a company, were concerned that our PPO would be considered a "Cadillac plan" but it was a fairly minor scare in the grand scheme. Copays stayed the same. Coverage is identical. Of course, we also have quite a bit of leverage when dealing with insurance companies due to size and reputation. Not every organization has that same power.

I will say that I don't like the way obamacare was executed. Personally, I think a less invasive way to do it would have been to require states to do what Massachussets did. Or, more accurately, require them to achieve the same result (i.e. Everyone in the state becomes insured) using whatever system works best for them. Create a federal system to collect the people who slip through the state cracks and call it a day.

But it isn't like the current system was the first draft. This was the result of endless compromises and even its designers kind of admit it is a cobbled together Frankenstein's monster sort of system. But before it we had people dying because they didn't qualify for health insurance due to their poor health. Starvation and dying because you're too sick to qualify for medical care are things that an industrialized nation should stamp out.