The law was poorly written, and meant some people still didn’t have health insurance but now also couldn’t get enough hours.
These half-measures do more to hurt the reputation of universal healthcare than help. The ACA is part of the reason so many Americans are afraid of public control of healthcare.
Even the people that did get health insurance after the ACA often got stuck with an HMO, where the insurance hires the doctor directly instead of letting the patient pick an independent provider. With conflicts of interest like that, the patient gets screwed despite having insurance on paper.
If we just copied Germany’s system completely I think everyone would realize how much better it is than private insurance.
The gaps are there because certain people don’t want the law written to cover people correctly, they still want it to be profitable. The problem isn’t government health care, it’s the people defending private health care.
The law was poorly written, and meant some people still didn’t have health insurance but now also couldn’t get enough hours.
These half-measures do more to hurt the reputation of universal healthcare than help. The ACA is part of the reason so many Americans are afraid of public control of healthcare.
Even the people that did get health insurance after the ACA often got stuck with an HMO, where the insurance hires the doctor directly instead of letting the patient pick an independent provider. With conflicts of interest like that, the patient gets screwed despite having insurance on paper.
If we just copied Germany’s system completely I think everyone would realize how much better it is than private insurance.
The gaps are there because certain people don’t want the law written to cover people correctly, they still want it to be profitable. The problem isn’t government health care, it’s the people defending private health care.