Obamacare Assessments

i. President Clinton:
"Speaking at a Democratic rally in Flint, Michigan, the former president ripped into the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for flooding the health care insurance market and causing premiums to rise for middle-class Americans who do not qualify for subsidies.
'So you've got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. It's the craziest thing in the world,' Clinton said."
Ref: CNN
[n.b. Technically President Clinton misspoke; 25 million people do not have "health care"; they do have "health insurance", just in a "crazy system".]

ii. And from The New York Times :
"Mr. Obama’s signature domestic achievement will almost certainly have to change to survive. The two parties agree that for too many people, health plans in the individual insurance market are still too expensive and inaccessible.
'Employer markets are fairly stable, but the individual insurance market does not feel stable at all,' said Janet S. Trautwein, the chief executive of the National Association of Health Underwriters, which represents more than 100,000 agents and brokers who specialize in health insurance. 'In many states, the individual market is in a shambles.' ”

It is simply astonishing to poor old DonDiego that no one saw this coming. Oh, wait ! In fact, lots of analysts of the cock-eyed law predicted just this outcome.
[n.b. If The Obama were not a Democrat the New York Times would've employed the phrase "has failed" to describe The Obamacare, instead of the more pleasant "will almost certainly have to change to survive".]

In today's news, it's reported that four and a half million people are not taking advantage of tax breaks offered under the program. You can't teach stupid..

They could learn from Trump.

I agree with Bill. It is a crazy system that was designed by a conservative think tank to artificially maintain private health insurance companies. This actually makes me hopeful as Hillary probably doesn't like it either.

Wait a second....mali, are you really trying to pin Obamanation health care on conservatives??? As in the very people who DIDN'T vote for it! Am I understanding you?

It seems malibber2 agrees with the looney propagandist Michael Moore's claim that the Heritage Foundation was the original source of Obamacare.

Others disagree. See "No, Obamacare Wasn't a 'Republican' Proposal" for a reasonable explanation.
That the vote was every Democrat "For" and every Republican "Against" adds some credence to the essayist.

The truth isn't loony. It was the plan created by the Heritage Foundation and first put into practice by Mitt Romney. That is why Republicans have a hard time coming up with a replacement. Obama stole their plan. When the Republicans running the State of Alaska had the chance to get rid of Obamacare in their state and come up with something else, they decided to pump millions of state taxpayer dollars into Obamacare to keep it running because they realized the only alternative was the government (the state of Alaska) becoming the insurance company.

The Money Shot on the origins of Obamacare as discussed by Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.

Mali, how many conservatives are thought to have voted for, what in your opinion is 'their' plan?

It does not change the fact that it was there plan before Obamas if they voted for it or not.

It doesn't matter who originated the idea, the reality is that it doesn't work.