Golly, clo, you don't like the guy.
If it's a choice between on the one hand healthcare for millions and curing the biggest flaw in the US economy and on the other a few politicians careers, I choose Obamacare.
But it didn't have to be a choice. If the Democrats had any spine, they'd have collectively defended the legislation and maybe saved their own jobs. They caved in the face of Republican nonsense predictions.
Here's what actually happened.
"By the end of open enrollment 2015, an estimated 11.7 million were enrolled in state and federal marketplaces. 10.8 million more were covered through Medicaid and CHIP and 5.7 million able to stay on their parents’ plan. Many more were covered through employers who expanded coverage under the ACA and on private plans outside of the marketplace.
• Due to the ACA’s cost curbing provisions, health care spending in 2014 grew at the slowest rate on record (since 1960). Meanwhile, health care price inflation is at its lowest rate in 50 years.
• 8.2 million seniors have saved more than $11.5 billion on their prescription drugs since 2010 – an average of $1,407 per beneficiary.
• The ACA’s provisions have helped save $19.2 billion in fraud – about a $10 million increase from the five years before that.
• Preliminary data shows that between 2010 and 2013, due to new ACA provisions, about 1.3 million less events occurred that could cause hospital-acquired conditions like pressure ulcers, central line associated infections, and falls and traumas. As a result, 50,000 fewer people lost their lives and there were $12 billion in cost savings." http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-facts/
Mega liberal triumph. Single biggest fix the US economy could get after 2008.
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