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“The people who are getting killed in this deal are the small businesspeople and individuals who make just a little too much to get in on these subsidies,”
Bill Clinton said.
“So you’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care, and they … wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half,” he said.
“It doesn’t many any sense. The insurance model doesn’t work here,” Clinton said in discussing the government-run marketplaces created through Obamacare.
That quotation, while accurate, doesn’t fully portray Bill Clinton’s argument for keeping the Affordable Care Act ― which has extended health coverage to 20 million people and cut the uninsured rate to a historic low ― and enhancing it with policies proposed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Bill Clinton accurately described the status quo as one where people who get health coverage from government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and people who are eligible for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, are well-covered ― but where people who earn too much for financial assistance can face high premiums:
originally posted by: amicktd
originally posted by: lordcomac
Probably a primer to the new and improved clinton-care, coming your way soon.
I can't think of one thing she has improved in her entire political career. Can you enlighten me?
Mike Enzi, one of three Republicans ostensibly negotiating health care reform as part of the Senate’s “Gang of Six,” told a Wyoming town hall crowd that he had no plans to compromise with Democrats and was merely trying to extract concessions.
“It’s not where I get them to compromise, it’s what I get them to leave out,” Enzi said Monday, according to the Billings Gazette.
Enzi was also hit from the other side, as constituents criticized him for taking significant campaign cash from the health insurance industry while opposing a public insurance option that would compete with private plans and take a bit out of their bottom line.
originally posted by: BlueJacket
a reply to: enlightenedservant
I like a public option, honesty that creates great competition and the huge pool would lower prices.
originally posted by: BlueJacket
a reply to: enlightenedservant
Im afraid the fix is in my friend, single payer will be funded by the middle
originally posted by: BlueJacket
a reply to: enlightenedservant
I like a public option, honesty that creates great competition and the huge pool would lower prices.