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[–] SoloPoloVision 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I think everyone's forgetting why Obamacare happened. That cheap insurance wasn't available to millions, and you could find your policy cancelled at any time just when you needed treatment. "Preexisting conditions" as minor as acne could completely prevent you from getting insurance or get your insurance pulled from right under you.

Those who were unlucky to have any kind of preexisting condition either had to pay huge premiums, or go without insurance at all and just wait until they were sick enough to use the emergency room for treatment and cost the taxpayer hugely.

That's no way to have a healthcare system either.

Of course Obamacare got watered down so much it's almost useless, as proven by current insurance prices. If there were proper price controls and a public insurance option, like every other western country that has an insurance rather than single payer system, there wouldn't be this mess.

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[–] SoloPoloVision 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Modifying the existing structure and closing the pre existing loophole would have fixed most of the issues the old system had.

Well, that's not far off what Obamacare did, and you see how that ended up. As I said other developed countries that don't have single payer have a highly regulated insurance model with public options which, if applied to the US, certainly wouldn't be re-writing the whole thing but would fix a lot of the price gouging, profiteering and general inefficiency in the current system.