I think the core ideas of the ACA with the public option was originally Gingrich, in response to Hillary Clinton’s much more aggressive proposal for single payer, right? And then before the federal ACA, “Romneycare” was implemented in Massachusetts (without a public option, but with preexisting condition protection and not allowing separate high risk pools) by Republican Governor Mitt Romney. I think the discourse ended up polarized because Obama presented it that it seemed really partisan but the person that killed the public option in a Herculean commitment to insurance company profiteering was none other than liberal centrist Senator Joe Lieberman. This is not a partisan issue. There are obviously going to be ideological pockets in the extremes but outside of that, for the most part, the only people that are stepping up to defend the insurance companies are in their goddamned pockets.
You're right, but there are people on both sides who toe the party line blindly(and stupidly, if I might add).
I'll never forget Trump being cornered, and him saying he's not going to let people die in the streets, and his audience booing. He claimed they were all donors and lobbyists taking the audience seats, and despite his typical theatrics, I now believe that to be the truth.
Either way, today it is a leftist idea I think, so there will exist some people who oppose it out of spite.
I don't know a single person happy with the system today, which is damning. Just look at the reaction from recent events...
Fair enough. It is rather telling and should be extremely concerning to the insurance industry that in our extremely polarized political culture of late, this has been a the largest patch of common-ground many of us have stood on in a long time. Obviously not a total common ground issue, but I can’t think of anything bigger recently.
