Aggregate, I think you're a smart guy. But your continuous characterizations of the ACA as a Great Society plan is just repetition of partisan-manufactured nonsense.
A majority of the spending in ACA is Medicaid expansion so the bill is quite literally more Great Society. Furthermore, comparing the structure of the 1993 Republican bill with 2010 ACA, while ignoring the details regarding the standard insurance policies, is just a lazy attempt to make moderate Republicans glom on to the ACA.The details of Chafee's standard insurance policy were to be up to a
National Insurers' Health Commission, in combination with HHS. anvi isn't being lazy by not pointing them out because they literally were never promulgated. But there's little reason to believe they would be substantially different from the standard packages available in the ACA.
