@strangeloop:
I haven't fully researched the health care issue, so the following questions are not rhetorical, for Pucci etc.
If the ACA was so great, why did insurance premiums keep going up year over year under Obama?
Not only that, but the U.S. spends way more on health care than any other country.
Under Obama, that didn't change. Isn't reform necessary?
Yes but healthcare costs went up at a slower rate than they were going up before ObamaCare. We also had more people covered. ACA premiums went down in three states for 2017 (MA, RI and IN). This is the second time they went down in RI.
A HUGE part of the problem is that 19 Republican Governors rejected federal dollars to cover a group of people who are very sick and very expensive who would otherwise be covered under Medicaid expansion. Those greedy Governors instead decided to punish the people in their own states and forced them to pay for this group of childless adults who are low income via higher premiums. The cost of their care is much higher since Medicaid would have paid lower rates. My state has covered this population since the 90's. I used to work with this group of patients and I can tell you first hand that they are almost entirely men age 18-35 with substance abuse issues. Those governors didn't want to help the taxpayers in their state. They screwed them over and they made pay higher costs to pay for bunch of drug addicts because they don't like Obama.
Yet these low income Republicans will fight tooth and nail to make sure that billionaires get to keep their money. They call it "freedom."