Can Obamacare Still Be Salvaged When Democrats Regain Power?

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Personally, I still hope for Wyden-Bennett to pass on a bipartisan basis.

I'm pretty sure you're the only person that even cares about that bill anymore.

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The Democrats best path forward would be to pass a comprehensive revision of ObamaCare to reinvigorate the system. Repeal the stupid stuff like the Cadillac Tax, Medical Device Tax, 30 hour work week, and requiring maternity coverage for old people. Then add in the public option, increase individual mandate fine so that it's actually more expensive than the average insurance plan, and preferably add basic dental services to the essential benefits list.

Even if we pretend that Single-Payer isn't socialist, there's still the fact that it carries a GIGANTIC price tag. The public cannot afford a YUGE tax increase, and ballooning the deficit is never the answer. Single Payer may be fun to think about, but it's not a realistic or american solution and never will be.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Just because we can manage a deficit without the world ending doesn't mean it's right to have a deficit. What is right is to work to wipe away our deficit permanently over the next 15 years or so, and pay down our debt. Not saying we have to get down to zero debt - some justifiable cause will likely crop up eventually - but let's take a lot of the burden of this debt off of our children and grandchildren and be the country we were from 1776-1980: A country known for having a relatively low amount of debt, rather than a country known for having a comically high amount of debt.