Bullsh*t. If Obamacare was repealed tomorrow with no replacement, we would go back to the greatest medical care system in the world. No one would be denied medical care because of standing laws. Your idea that "20 million..." is a false narrative.
Here's my problem with Obamacare:
1. The penalties that Justice Robert declared a TAX when the law and the arguing pro-lawyers clearly said a penalty! I will never get over that USSC decision that Americans must buy a product or endure a tax;
2. The idea of a 25 year old man or woman MUST be included in their parent's insurance. Really? I could see up to 18 or maybe 21, but 26?
3. Subsidies for the poor. I'm so sick of hearing about the poor. Want to compare our poor with wide-screen TVs to those around the World?
4. While I understand about pre-existing conditions, that is hardly what insurance is about. I'd be happy to not pay auto insurance until I get in an accident. There have always been high-risk pools for that.
5. Mostly, the ever increasing premiums with HUGE deductibles for those who are above the minimum and don't receive subsidies. Socialist redistribution, again. Read every day where a family can't afford the monthly payments nor can use their high deductibles. Wasn't a problem before Obamacare.
6. The countless Doctors who have retired not wanting to deal with the paper bureaucracy.
There are answers for the uninsured, but first do away with this gawd-awful Obamacare. Let the insurance companies, hospitals, medical care personnel figure it out. Socialism never works; free enterprise does.
They gave 90% of California another free entitlement.
90% pay less than $100 a month for insurance. You have to be just above poverty or worse to get that.
Means 90% of California is at the poverty line these days. Good luck telling them no more free stuff.
IMO Obamacare was designed to fail to try to give us the NHS as a next step. It turns out people weren’t willing to blame insurers for raising premiums and vote for more socialism given the clear connections between premium rates and Obamacare.
That said, health insurance is how people pay for health care. Unless you have a solution for people with preexisting conditions who don’t have employer plans, ending Obamacare is going to screw millions of people.
If your plan is to sell the public on “let people die if they can’t afford market rate health care” you might need a better tagline for ending Obamacare.
Insurance companies make money screwing people out of coverage. If they hadn’t overreached in the first place Obamacare would never have had any traction to begin with.