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In reply to the discussion: The CBO's other bombshell: the Affordable Care Act isn't imploding [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)you know how he shouts on his podium about things. I heard him shouting about the implosion thing...people having only one insurance company that sells in their area, rising premium costs, not being able to afford the high deductibles or find a doctor, insurance companies leaving the ACA entirely.
Trump is disgusting, for sure. But he was clear on those points (someone must have told him what the complaints by people were, since he wouldn't know personally).
Ryan then made statements about the same things. Those are the complaints of people.
This is one of those things that I thought the Democratic politicians didn't address, and that hurt them in the election. Not that they hadn't fixed the ACA, but that they didn't acknowledge the problems and at least work on them. (I was listening for that during the campaign, and I don't recall that Clinton addressed this specifically, but it's possible she made references to improving it...I don't remember that though.)
The "replacement" will be worse, though. At least with the ACA millions of people had something. Under this new Ryan plan, millions more won't have anything. Including me.
Trump was lying when he said he'd provide "insurance for everybody!" It's hard to believe that anyone was stupid enough to believe him.