The sad thing here is if the Republicans had stood up a simple plan where there was a $4k deductible, a subsidized tax credit for those who couldn’t make the payment situations, allowed for cross-state-border insurance situations, and limited legal action against doctors and hospitals to $100,000 for most everything except extreme cases....then we would never have required some 2,000 page lost-in-space law (one-size fits all mentality).
Once they politicized health care....it was doomed for failure. The same would be true for politicizing business, farming, nutrition, or entertainment. This is one of the reasons why National Parks are now being viewed closely as ‘money-losing’ operations. Same for education reform, and fracking.
My belief is that laws should be very short (10 pages?) if they become long then that is good evidence that they are simply efforts at social engineering. The people who think 2000-page laws are a good idea are the same people who think the legislature can alter human nature.
You are quite correct. The republicans had years and years where they could have taken the lead on this subject, but they seemed to think it would just....go away.
well, it didn’t and now we have this unholy mess.