Why are so many liberals endlessly supportive of and accepting of Obamacare’s failures?
It’s designed to funnel money to insurance companies and it’s not even doing that very well, much less helping Americans. It has basically failed at everything it set out to do, other than giving some people pseudo-insurance — i.e., insurance that they can’t afford if they actually have the gall to try and use it.
Is it just that Obama is on their team and they can’t criticize him for anything therefore? Can premiums that rise at twice or three times the rate of inflation and where you must change plans every single year to get a good deal seem like a great end result to anyone?
I just simply do not get it.
I was opposed to it for the same reasons you mention. Enriching the insurance companies even further seems like a very insane goal. But then people start telling me how it helped them or somebody they know, saved their lives, etc. And it’s hard to argue with that because I don’t know enough about their situation or the workings of the system.
I know it sounds heartless, but from an economics perspective these “miraculous saves” that occur have to be balanced against all the other harm it does elsewhere.
I’m interested in seeing some studies that truly assay this, but those don’t seem to exist. Neither side has any interest in it, financially or ideologically.