Where are those great health plans?
Obamacare's Five Broken Promises That Made Health Care Even Worse
Broken Promise #1 " You Can Keep Your Plan
Up to 9.3 million people lost their coverage during the first open enrollment period.
President Obama personally apologized for Americans losing health coverage.
Politifact named "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," the Lie of the Year for 2013.
Broken Promise #2 " You Can Keep Your Doctor
As many as 214,000 doctors opted out of participating in Obamacare exchange plans.
CNN declared President Obama's claim that "You can keep your own doctor" false.
Obamacare's website revised and then dropped the section entitled, "Can I keep my own doctor?"
Broken Promise #3 " Your Premiums Will Go Down by $2,500
Premiums increased by about 60% in the first four years.
Insurance premium amounts varied in increase from $2,524 for an individual between the ages of 31 and 40 to $12,040 for a family headed by someone over age 60.
Broken Promise #4 " You'll Have More Access to Care
Hundreds of thousands of health care providers opted-out of Obamacare exchange plans.
Studies show that instead of going to a doctor's office for care, people continued to use emergency rooms for non-emergencies.
Over half of the of the uninsured in 2018 were eligible for financial assistance through Medicaid or marketplace subsidies but chose not to be covered.
Access to insurance does not equate to having access to care.
Broken Promise #5 " Those With Pre-Existing Conditions Will Be Protected
Obamacare did not protect patients from bankruptcy. Research from a left-leaning organization found no evidence Obamacare reduced the proportion of bankruptcies driven by medical debt.
Obamacare did not protect patients from dying. A 2019 study found there was no reduction in mortality for those that participated in Obamacare, meaning that enrollment in Obamacare had the same impact as having other forms of coverage or no coverage at all.
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The statement that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was the best healthcare program Democrats could get in the face of Republican opposition reflects a widely held view among political analysts and participants at the time.
Unified Republican Opposition: Not a single Republican in the House or Senate voted for the final version of the ACA. This made bipartisan consensus on more ambitious reforms, such as a public option or single-payer system, politically impossible.
Legislative Hurdles: The Democrats initially had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, but they lost it with the election of Republican Scott Brown in early 2010.
This required Democrats to use the budget reconciliation process for subsequent changes to the bill, which only required 50 votes but limited the scope of what could be included.
Historical Context: Every Democratic president since Truman had attempted some form of universal healthcare, with limited success.
The ACA was seen as a significant, albeit imperfect, step forward in expanding coverage, cutting the uninsured rate in half since its passage.
In short, the ACA was a product of a complex and highly partisan legislative battle, representing a series of political and procedural compromises necessary to pass any major healthcare legislation in the face of intense opposition"
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