Private, nonemployer-provided insurance has sucked for me since 1994, regardless of White House occupant. If it wasn't the coverage, it was the premiums . . . and sometimes both.
The only break I got for about two years was when my wife was working 26 hours a week for a nonprofit, and they were gracious enough to put her on it, which didn't mean much, since she was healthy and past childbearing age. Then they put me on it, which was well beyond gracious.
Then my wife and said employer came to a parting of the ways, so to speak, and it was COBRA for 18 months, which only mostly sucked.
Then the marketplace since about 2017 (Anthem), which in the first few years was $2k monthly premiums for both of us. She went on Medicare five years ago, and I'm in a few months. I'm already setting up appointments.
Yes, health insurance policies (and yes, MB, the plain-fact necessity of signing on the ones available to you) and the CEOs sustaining them have robbed a whole lot of people more years of life than seeing one CEO die early by whatever means. How much of their profits and salaries could have gone toward helping people with their health, while they remained profitable and rich?
