What are actual, serious GOP proposals to replace the ACA? I'm primarily asking the Republican posters on this forum. And how will they ensure affordable coverage for the 30 million Americans who could lose their healthcare as a result of repealing the ACA?
Which is a fancy word for "nothing."
They would cut costs because it would be people, themselves, paying the bill, with THEIR money.
Health Insurance is OPM. Other People's Money. It's taking money from people who are well and giving it to people who are sick, is it not? When it's the government's money, or Other People's Money that enables one to pay for a good or service, it increases the price of that service not so much due to the increased demand as the fact that it feels like it's free to the person who gets the service.
I'm not anti-Obamacare. I do think that its viability is in question due to (A) the SCOTUS striking down the expansion of Medicaid and (B) Republicans selfishly wanting to destroy it for political gain, rather than fixing a plan which was, originally, a REPUBLICAN idea that Obama borrowed to get something done. But Americans need to be honest with themselves. The goal of cutting costs is directly at odds with the goal of universal coverage.
