Even Polilticians Do Not Know What ACA (Obamacare) Does

[erpowers]

“What we really need is to get insurance de-linked from employment and allow me, if I'm an individual employer, a business of one, you need to let me pool together easily with large groups so I’m a pool of thousands if not millions of people so I don't get this problem of jacking up my rates when I get sick,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on “Morning Joe.”

This pooling of risk and barring of rate hikes once people get sick are exactly what the Obamacare exchanges do.

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Thanks to years of Republican fearmongering and (frankly) journalistic malpractice, voters have little idea what Obamacare is. All they know is that it’s bad, and partisan, and a failure. The law itself has become a vessel for everything people dislike about the U.S. health-care system, including and especially problems that long predated the law: high prices, complexity, opacity, uncertainty. 

Americans don’t even recognize Obamacare’s one inarguable accomplishment: the precipitous decline in the uninsured rate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/make-obamacare-great-again--call-it-trumpcare/2017/01/05/39669a00-d387-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.ec834676c0b9

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. They just didn't bother with the details.

They just attached their favorite curse word (Obama) to it, and expected it to fail because of their cleverness.

Lazy fail.

[rgbecker]

2. Wish I could believe this is Rand Paul not understanding what Obamacare is.....

But I fear it is rather Rand Paul simply continuing, together with McConnell, to mislead Kentuckians, who may be the most ill informed voters in the country,

[HoneyBadger]

3. Isn't this what Switzerland does

De link health insurance from employment.......

[Hoyt]

4. Rather than look at how many people ACA helped, they focus on it being associate with Obama,

the initial Exchange problems, insurance companies dropping out, high premiums and out-of-pocket costs, limited networks, etc. Too bad they won't focus on any of that except maybe getting rid of the Exchanges and offering some kind of vouchers to lower income individuals.