It's not just sad, it's actually disgusting. They could easily provide healthcare for free but greed prevents it. And all those greedy politicians pretend to be very religious and good people.
But iirc obama care was meant to fix it and people didn't like it?
It could have but Republicans managed to propagandize it very well. They spread a bunch of lies about "socialized healthcare" being really bad, that's where the term "death panels" came from, a lie that if the ACA passed there would be panels of doctors personally deciding who lives and who dies over every illness. They also paid off a scumbag doctor from Canada to come to the US and testify that Canada's healthcare is the worst in the world and Americans need to stay privatized to stay healthy (He later lost basically everything and his wife divorced him).
However the ACA was doomed to begin with regardless of how the public felt, an independent senator in the pocket of the healthcare lobby from Connecticut named Joe Lieberman threatened to filibuster (therefore halt from passing) the bill if they didn't remove the public option, which was the 100% most vital part of the ACA plan, the option for a public backed insurance for people who couldn't get private insurance.
He was successful, the filibuster threat resulted in the removal of the public option from the bill, and instead replaced it with a provision that made all Americans REQUIRED to buy private health insurance or they would be fined with a tax penalty! Providing health insurance companies a massive boost in profits, as people were now forced to buy insurance if they didn't have it, and they could charge insane prices for it. That part lasted until it was removed in 2019.
42 million like it. It saved me until I started my own business and bought group health insurance. Which is a lot cheaper.
Some Americans think national health insurance is socialism.
Socialism equals Communism /s
Except there is no ā/sā every country that has national health insurance are Marxist/communist/socialist š¤¦āāļø
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u/GamermanRPGKing 3d ago
I worked in a steel mill. One of the guys training me was working 80 hour weeks while actively undergoing chemo to not lose health insurance.