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[–] VIP740 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
This is a big issue and the way it's dealt with is important. Simply repealing Obamacare would hurt people, but things would be no worse than they were before it was passed. Obamacare was not a sensible solution, and it still isn't. Here are some things to keep in mind.
While a record number of people have health insurance now, the quality of their insurance is undesirable. With people being coerced to buy insurance if they don't want to be fined, the the government is helping the insurance companies get business they haven't earned. The market has been established in a way that doesn't encourage competition, and is unsustainable in the long run. I myself have gone without insurance, because what would be worth having is too expensive, and what is affordable isn't worth having.
Health insurance is not healthcare. The insurance industry has had a bad influence on the healthcare industry. What most people seem to want, and what the politicians are leading them to believe they'll deliver, is unrealistic. Focus has been shifted from making sure people get healthcare (medicine, surgeries, therapy, etc...), to making sure people demand health insurance (what should only be a safety net to cover payments in extraordinary circumstances). Personally, I think the healthcare in this country should be run in such a way as to make insurance unnecessary for emergency situations (forcing people to pay taxes to be spent on treating the poor, rather than forcing people to pay private companies).
Unfortunately, neither Trump nor Clinton were offering sensible solutions to healthcare during the election.