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Originally Posted by katie45
Obama's plan could have just stopped at the mandate to provide insurance for individuals with pre-existing conditions. I agree that that was the best thing about his plan.
However, his plan has destroyed many small businesses; lost millions of jobs; increased premiums to the point that no one can afford them; plus increasing the annual deductibles to over $6,000/year. Those are the main reasons his plan has failed.
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Not nearly that clear. Again it appears to work reasonably well in Las Vegas and fail pretty badly in Phoenix. Just how does that happen?
The pre-existing and no lifetime limit clauses are the source of all the problems. Without very high participation any such plan is not viable. And again the thing worked well some places and not in others.
So any rewrite either will have to scrap those clauses or come up with something very similar to the ACA.
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