I too would like to hear Wes opine.
I know everyone's expecting me to defend it since you've all decided I'm the pinko lib'ruhl hippie, but in actuality I consistently oppose big government programs like this.
The only difference you will see from me is I'm not rooting for its total collapse just because I don't think it's the best way to go about healthcare reform. I am able to empathize with people who needed coverage that truly were unable to get it, and recognize the need for some kind of reform. If the ACA truly made healthcare more affordable to more people and extended coverage to people who previously could not get coverage (i.e. people with preexisting conditions) without all the problems we're seeing, I'd be all for it, even if it meant me being wrong about it.
Because of this, I'd genuinely like to hear a rational argument that it's not the total failure I currently believe it to be.
It has never been about affordable health care for people that truly can not afford it. Those people get put on medicaid.
It's about GIVING health care to the lower middle class and middle class that because of bad decisions, can not afford health care.
How many people that were belly aching about not being able to afford health care owned a cell phone? How many had cable TV and Netflix accounts? How many had more car than they could afford?
The reason they could not afford health insurance is because they CHOSE not to. To those people, I say tough shit when you get hit with big medical bills.
This has always been about control. The more we promise people, the more they become reliant on big government, the more free stuff we give them, the more they keep voting for us. It is about maintaining power, pure and simple.
Just look at what they are running on now. $10.10 minimum wage. Give them a raise and they will vote for us. Truly pitiful