I know it is controversial, but I am still opposed to ObamaCare. ObamaCare can not work without a public option. The plan is just too unworkable.
It is like you took the worst of both parties ideas and meshed them together.
It is better just to go with liberal policy all the time, with tweaking legislation to address Republican concerns.
Obamacare was destined to "fail" without a public option. Obama let Blue Dogs like Baucus and Nelson control the fate of the ACA, which will go down as a grave mistake.
Sadly, I doubt there will be much political will to push it through in the next few years without a Democrat-controlled House.
A public option would be the only legal way ObamaCare could work practically. The individual mandate has constitutional questions. Supreme Court agreed that the individual mandate itself was unconstitutional, but could be allowed as a "tax".
But irrespective, if I had a voice in the congressional vote, I would absolutely have voted against the ACA.
The whole irony is, the ObamaCare act that passed was essentially a carbon copy of what Newt Gingrich and Orrin Hatch proposed back in the 1990s.
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